Jason Lollar / Lollar Pickups installs P90 pickups Part 6

Jason Lollar shows you how to convert your guitar from humbuckers to P90s. Tips include routing, wiring, and soldering.

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Music

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• P90
• installation
• Lollar
• Jason
• Gibson
• Epiphone
• pickups
• solder
• wiring
• humbucker
• conversion
• SG
• electric
• guitar
• router
• jig

[muaythai4lifelife]

Hi Jason, I have a question about the wiring of the volumes in the independent way on a Sg guitar.

Using that wiring you can really mix both pickups on the middle of the switch.

Do you think the guitar will sound different on the bridge or neck position?

Will the independent wiring affect the sound of the pickups when you are on the bridge or neck?

[LollarGuitars]

@muaythai4lifelife if you mean a guitar with one volume and tone verses a guitar with two volumes and tones youll get more tonal variation in the middle position if you can adjust the volume of either pickup as far as will a guitar sound different if its outfitted with 1 v and 1 t or 2 v 2 t i have never had the opprotunity to do a comparision that would have any real meaning, you would need identical guitars with identical pickups etc. The pot load is different using both pickups so it could

[LollarGuitars]

good question- you can just hook the new pickups in where the old pickups were connected but I usually check the quality of the components and if they are sub par I will gut it and start over. I usually follow some kind of vintage gibson or fender schematic for something I am going to play. Sometimes you have to ream the holes out the pots are mounted in if you are going to put USA made parts into a guitar using chinese pots- different shaft diameters.

[LollarGuitars]

there are many ways to wire caps in a common way would be to run the cap between the volume pot where the pickup lead is attached to the center lug of the tone pot. Looking at the bottom of the tone pot with the lugs facing you normally the right lug is grounded- you would ground the left lug. Go on my .com site and select a schematic and just wire the tone and volume backwards from what they show.

[szabiguitar]

Hi Jason! I have only two pots and a switch in my guitar. How should I wire p90s into it?

[LollarGuitars]

@szabiguitar

you may need a schematic which you can find about anywhere on the net but anyway for that scenario you run the pickups to the switch then from the switch to the volume and tone then to the output jack. I couldnt possibly describe every detail with the few words allowed on these posts

[muaythai4lifelife]

I'm afraid to lose the bite of the pickups changing type of wiring.

Thanx :)

[muaythai4lifelife]

Resuming can the Independent wiring modify the bridge and neck pickup when selected alone?

[muaythai4lifelife]

Hi Jason, I mean an Sg with 2 volumes and 2 tones.

Imagine you have 2 identical guitars. One you wire it when the middle pick up is On so to be a Master volume.

The other with independent volume so on the middle position of the switch you can blend the 2 p-ups by personal taste.

Does the 2 guitars sound different playing only on the bridge alone, or at the neck pick up alone?

[quantumshift5]

With installing new pickups, do you always just copying the previous connection or are there some occasions where a little adjustments are need?

[muaythai4lifelife]

Hi there. In which lug must be wired the cap in a left handed tone pot?

I mean in a left hanfed reverse log pot.

Thanx