Yes, Ralf, I'm just discovering that, I'm not an electronics guy (well, a tiny bit) but after pouring over a lot of the info I need, I've started to understand it better, and everyone's input here has helped me a lot. I have my part list put together, and my last thing is the pickup rings. I wrote to Hans Moust and he informed me that I could simply drop the Seth Lovers into the existing rings, as the little adapter plate for the 2 screws is already in there. Still, I'm thinking of getting a set of rings for the SL's, I'm wondering if newer rings would have the outer 4 mounting screws in the same place as what I have now, as I don't want to drill new holes...
Yes, Ralf, I'm just discovering that, I'm not an electronics guy (well, a tiny bit) but after pouring over a lot of the info I need, I've started to understand it better, and everyone's input here has helped me a lot. I have my part list put together, and my last thing is the pickup rings. I wrote to Hans Moust and he informed me that I could simply drop the Seth Lovers into the existing rings, as the little adapter plate for the 2 screws is already in there. Still, I'm thinking of getting a set of rings for the SL's, I'm wondering if newer rings would have the outer 4 mounting screws in the same place as what I have now, as I don't want to drill new holes...
OK, let me see what I can do here; looking at the switch from the bottom, and the push/pull pot straight on, (pot on top, 2 columns of 3 below) the left lug of the switch goes to the middle left terminal of the p/p, the center lug of the switch goes to the left lug of the volume, and the right lug of the tone pot, and the right lug of the switch goes to right center terminal of the p/p.hey steve did u get a chance to see which white wires go where? if u could number them as u see them in ur pictures ie switch rg lug center lug left lug any help would be appreciated . iam almost there just have the two pickup leads to go and two wires on pp. ur picture seams like the wire coming in from the jack goes to the center lug of 25k pot and ground toright what appears to be the neck pickup to the left lug . my wiring is a bit different .i have the white wire from the pp pot left lug going to the center lug on 25k pot i guess the wire coming in from the jack is to go to the left lug ground to right lug?
Thanks Ralf, for the correction on the cap where I saw the Z as a 7 . Why would they use such a cheap cap there when the rest of the guitar is, well, a Nightbird? Unless it doesn't really make any difference? As I noted earlier, I'm not a tech, so it took me a while to dope it all out. Also, thanks for explaining the caps on the tone controls, not that I totally understand, but a few more reads and the light will go on. GAD, I'd like to update the drawing so it's correct, can I just delete the original in that post and replace it with the correction (I'll make it a PNG instead of the PDF)?
Steve
Sounds original to me as other 1985 Nightbirds had such a JK100 (100 nF) tone capacitor....on my guild nightbird gg model the cap is green marked jk100. if the cap in question is original...