No output? newbie needs help

[Nickosaurus]

yep it will sound like a pickup at full volume/tone if you wire it direct, bypassing all the goop in the middle.

not sure if your switch has 8 lugs (never made a PBG tele) but this is a nice diagram to help diagnose.



If you have a multimeter you can also follow the signal from the pickups through the circuit to see where it gets killed. Put one probe on the pickup's hot wire and one to ground and follow from pickup selector, to volume lugs, to tone lugs, to output (that is - changing the 'hot' probe's contact to each of those)

[keloooe]

yep it will sound like a pickup at full volume/tone if you wire it direct, bypassing all the goop in the middle.

actually no it will be brighter as when you max the volume, there is still signal loss! The Jackpot (StewMac sell it) is a pot that can allow you to bypass everything in a similar fashion! I should try it out one day...