Wiring Diagrams

[stan]

Hofner bass wiring:

[joshj]

anyone experience wiring a GD-1 kit? I must seem like an idiot but I am unsure of the wiring set up as there is apparently no tone control (due to lack of capacitor in the kit) or selector switch. If there has been a mistake AGAIN with what is supplied and I need to purchase a capacitor so be it but before I do anything I wanted to ask.

oh and anyone who built their Gibson style kit without grounding to the bridge and have that annoying buzzing sound, it is worth doing!!! My first kit I built a long time ago didn't have the hole for the bridge earth wire and instructional videos said nothing of this step, so I put it down to cheap parts however the buzzing vanished once I added this little wire in when I re built it so it is worth doing and checking out the video guide if your unsure!

[wokkaboy]

Josh,
I haven't seen anyone build a GD-1 guitar, looking at the website it says 1 volume and 1 tone, are you sure there is no capacitor ? It doesn't appear to have a selector switch so the only way to control volume on each of the 2 humbuckers is to wire each humbucker to each of the 2 volume pots. All I can suggest is look at this wiring diagram, 1 humbucker, 1 volume and piggy up the wires that go to the input jack to each volume pot as shown should work. Make sure you ground any part of the bridge mechanism to the back of one of the volume pots - good luck !
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...atic=1hum_1vol

[WeirdBits]

If you're going to wire it as two volumes with no switch, then you'll need to use a Jazz Bass style wiring so that you can control the volume of each pickup separately without one affecting the other. This requires the pickup 'hot' to go to the 'sweep' middle lug of the pot and the output on the outer lug (otherwise turning one volume all the way down will also mute the other pickup).

If you use this Jazz Bass diagram, treat your humbuckers as Jazz pickups, and run the output from the pots to the jack omitting the tone control, you will be able to control the volume of each pickup (0-max) separately.

[joshj]

hi yes I'm sure there is no capacitor, I always get everything out to make sure it is all there hence my enquiry on here, I will buy a capacitor if it is needed as I said that's of no concern I just wasn't sure how this kit was meant to be wired compared with other guitars I've made

[wokkaboy]

Yes you are correct Scott. Josh use the jazz bass diagram so volume control is separate

[wokkaboy]

Josh hope your finishing the axe in black?

[Jimbob_Stone]

/<\\/p>[/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/]<\\/p>/Quote from stan on September 5, 2013, 18:26
Hofner bass wiring:

Thanks for the diagram, however as all the oomponents are covered by a wafer circuit board my only options are 2 squares on IN1 and 3 on IN2 or vice versa, assuming the neck pickup goes to vol2 (IN2) and the bridge pick up goes to Vol1 (IN1) is the 3rd square on Vol2 (IN2) earth if so does it go to the input jack.

Also is this what the spare Orange wire is for.

[joshj]

I'm doing this in black yea but not a complete solid black it will be a translucent

[keloooe]

About the GD-1, I know someone who owns a legit Epi Graveyard Disciple, and there is a master volume and master tone, but on the side near your chest there is a selector switch.... Adam, can you fix this???