FredZepp Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 It looks great after cleaning. And it sounds like you have a handle to getting it up to speed tone-wise... cool Heritage there.
koula901 Posted July 22, 2011 Posted July 22, 2011 Very cool guitar! X2 Welcome to the HOC and congrats on your first Heritage! She looks to be an interesting ol' lady going through her middle aged renaissance, ready to kick ass.
caucajun Posted July 22, 2011 Author Posted July 22, 2011 Not sure about the original wiring but with a single humbucker and 2 switches there are only 2-3 things you can do. One is coil-tap to a single, next is phase-invert the two coils, and finally put them in parallel. I'm betting on the first two being what's wired. Depending on the pickup, the use of the toggles will really show a difference in the output level, particularly if there is a phase inversion. Looks like there is a Duncan there and if it's a JB, you have possibilities. A high-wind pickup such as a JB will be less prone to peter-out in tapped or phase-inverted position, since there is still quite a bit of coil winding output being used when not in normal bucking mode. The phase-inverted position will sound quacky and a little thin due to cancellation. A tone pot on the phase-inverted will tend to behave/appear something like a volume control because there is not much low end left in the resulting signal. YMMV. If you know better, let's hear it. BTW, I don't know if you have push/pull switches in addition to the toggles, but assumed you didn't. ok.....it must be alright, then, cuz you just described everything i'm hearing from it. " 'PREESH!"
caucajun Posted July 23, 2011 Author Posted July 23, 2011 update: no wonder the tone control doesn't control tone........i don't think it IS one......there's NO CAPACITOR.
caucajun Posted July 24, 2011 Author Posted July 24, 2011 ok. and now the finished vip-1. already getting local interest. thanks for all the help id'ing it!
SouthpawGuy Posted July 24, 2011 Posted July 24, 2011 update: no wonder the tone control doesn't control tone........i don't think it IS one......there's NO CAPACITOR. It might be a rotary control for the vari phase ? i.e. it controls how much of the out of phase effect is present.
caucajun Posted July 25, 2011 Author Posted July 25, 2011 It might be a rotary control for the vari phase ? i.e. it controls how much of the out of phase effect is present. that sounds to me like what must be going on. gets real thin sounding where you would expect a tone control to get "bass-y". i sprayed 'em out w. deoxit. no probs so far. (X'd fangerz)
caucajun Posted July 25, 2011 Author Posted July 25, 2011 Are you selling this? not "officially", but i'm a chronic trader. and i've got all these trading nuts surrounding me........"when in Rome", eh?
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