coil tapping?

seanw1010

say you want to coil tap an sg, would you just buy special pots? if so, where? is there anything else? tha nks

ianvomsaal

Hey there . . . since I'm the one that told you to coil-tap the pickups in the SG, I guess I'll be the one to reply to this question . . .

Yes, you get a push pull pot as your volume (or two push/pulls, one for each volume, depending if you want to be able to coil tap both pickups) http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers_and_push-pull_pots/3/Potentiometers_and_Push-Pull_Pots.html.
You can usually find these pots at your local guitar store. You just have to match the push/pull pot with the kind of pickups you have in the guitar (humbuckers use a 500k pot) - generally you'll need pickups with 4-wires and a ground (red, white, green, black, & bare - but most pickups are this configuration these days). Here's a quick link to a wiring diagram:
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/schematics/coil_splitting.html
or http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/I-GIBSON.html
Anyhow, have fun - Cheers . . .

- Ian C.T. vom Saal

who's_pearljam?

Listen to Ian. He speaks the truth!


I like these pots a lot, too:
Down there on the page where it says push push pots. You tap it one, and it's in, tap it again and it's out. That way it's a lot easier to switch on the fly.
There $16 and work great for me.

http://www.allparts.com/categories.php?cat_id=616&cat_name=500K%20POTS

Edit: it's the EP_0296-000

exhausted

chances are you'll need new pickups as well. the 57 classics have only two conductors.

seanw1010

exhausted wrote:

chances are you'll need new pickups as well. the 57 classics have only two conductors.

no, i checked, factory installed have 4

exhausted

bonus then. seems odd considering the standards, without any ties to being vintage, have two conductor.