Description

Hoagland Custom, located in sunny Fernandina Beach, Florida, has specialized in custom guitar wiring and pickup making for almost 30 years…

& we love what we do!

Let us start off by saying that you must have 2 humbuckers for this harness and they each must be splittable. That is, they each must have at least 4 conductors(wires).

This wiring mod, popularized by Led Zeppelin & The Yardbird’s great Jimmy Page, gives your Les Paul or SG style guitar a multitude of new tones not available with the stock wiring including the normal 3-way humbucker switching, Strat-like single coil tones, out-of-phase tones, and the huge sounding Broadbucker tone.  All made possible through coil splitting, series/parallel switching and phase-reversal.

Push-pull potentiometers make this switching possible without the need of drilling any new holes in your guitar.  Now your knobs will each have a dual function; adjusting volume or tone when twisted and providing switching options when pushed or pulled.  Installation process takes about 30 minutes.

We do not include the toggle switch with this harness but it is available through our web site. Our reasoning is that, if you didn’t need it, we didn’t want to charge you for it.

There’s a great article in Premiere Magazine’s “Mod Garage” :  https://www.premierguitar.com/diy/mod-garage/jimmy-page-wiring

Technical information regarding this Jimmy Page style harness:

CONTROL POT SPECS

• Resistance – 500K
• Taper – volume pots (2) are audio taper, the tone pots (2) are linear taper
• Knob type – 24 spline shaft
• Shaft diameter – 0.235″ (5.95mm)
• Thread type – 3/8″-32
• Threaded shaft length – 3/4″ (short-shaft)
• Required mounting hole diameter – 3/8″ (9.52mm)

CAPACITOR SPECS

• Brand – CDE
• Model – Orange Drop
• Style – poly
• Values – .047mfd & .022mfd

OUTPUT JACK SPECS

• Brand – Switchcraft
• Style – mono
• Mounting hole diameter – 3/8″ (9.52mm)
• Thread – 3/8″ x 32
• Thread length – 1/4″ (6.35m)

HARDWARE:    (includes dress nuts & washers)

• chrome (standard)
• black ($10 upgrade – includes black dress washers/nuts)
• gold ($10 upgrade – includes gold dress washers/nuts)
• Optional “Pure Tone” premium mono output jack ($6 upgrade)

AVAILABLE CAPACITORS:

• Sprague/CDE “Orange Drop” poly capacitors (2), as standard & no additional cost
• MojoTone Dijon Premium Foil/Film capacitors (2), $6 upgrade (From the manufacturer: “Mojotone Dijon capacitors are high quality foil/film capacitors made to our exact specification. We like to call them musical capacitors because of their good tone and transparency.”)
• Mallory “Mustard” capacitors (2), $8 upgrade
• Centralab mylar-in-oil capacitors (2), $26 upgrade
• Vitamin T “Silver Barrel” paper-in-oil capacitors (2), $28 upgrade
• Vitamin Q “Black Candy” paper-in-oil capacitors (2), $32 upgrade

POT FUNCTIONS:

• Bridge volume knob – splits the bridge pickup
• Neck volume knob – splits the neck pickup
• Bridge tone knob – puts the bridge & neck pickups out-of-phase with each other
• Neck tone knob – puts the bridge & neck pickups in-series

STANDARD INCLUDES:

• 2 – 500k push/pull volume controls, 500k value, short-shaft (3/8″ or 9mm), audio taper
• 2 – 500k push/pull tone controls, 500k value, short-shaft (3/8″ or 9mm), linear taper
• 2 Sprague “Orange Drop” poly capacitors, a .022mfd & a .047mfd value
• Switchcraft mono output jack
• easy-to-follow wiring diagram
• tech support phone & email