Hey everyone. So a friend brought me his Epiphone LP. It was from the 90’s and had a lot of wear, had me clean it up for him, and asked me to install new CTS pots and a switch craft toggle to replace his worn import ones.
I carefully widened the holes by hand, took a ton of pictures as I went for reference, and started by replacing pot by pot, then the switch last. I found a wiring schematic that mostly matches.
It has a type of multi clip connector that joins a single cable from the switch to the control cavity, breaking out from there to the pots. Poor explanation, I apologize.
Felt pretty confident, however I botched something. The neck pickup is silent, and the neck pickup volume knob when both pickups are selected makes the total output go from silent, to loud, back to silent, as you go from 0-10.
I believe the volume knob oddity is simply a result of the neck pickup, not it’s own issue but can’t be sure until I get the neck pickup working.
when I get off of work I’ll take pictures if helpful, I assume I should start by looking at the volume pot for the neck for mistakes.
if anyone has any ideas on a good place to start troubleshooting otherwise I’d appreciate it, thanks.
Edit: another possibility I’ve thought of is that I have accidentally grounded the signal wire with its shielding where it’s all cramped up on the vol pot.
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What happens if you select both pickups and operate the bridge pickup volume control between 0 and 10?
With both pickups selected, does tapping on the neck pickup produce any sound?
I'll give you one guess how I learned that .
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