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Andy Volk
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From: Boston, MA

posted 27 January 2004 10:01 AM     profile   send email     edit
Steel guitar wiz John Ely has added a bunch of wiring diagrams to his website for ...

Fender

* Champ 6-String
* Deluxe 8-String
* Dual Professional
* Stringmaster D-8, late 50s
* Stringmaster D-8, 1953
* Stringmaster T-8, late 50s
* Fender 400 Pedal Steel, early 60s

Rickenbacker

* Rickenbacher Electro Bakelite 6
* Rickenbacker Electro D-8
* Rickenbacker Triple-8 (Curly Maple Cabinet)

Other

* Gibson BR-6
* National S-6 w/ Tuning Lever
* National Model 50 D-8
* Volume Pedal with Taper Control
http://www.hawaiiansteel.com/instruments/diagrams.html

Thanks, John!

Bill Creller
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From: Saginaw, Michigan, USA

posted 28 January 2004 06:54 AM     profile   send email     edit
I just did some work on an early bakelite for Bob Stone, and the pick up was not wired like the diagram from John's list. This guitar has the original single pot, volume only. The diagram shows the volume pot shorting the output at zero volume, and that doesn't look right to me. This guitar was not wired that way.The ground should not be connected to the pot on the bottom end
BILL

[This message was edited by Bill Creller on 28 January 2004 at 06:56 AM.]

Rick Aiello
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From: Berryville, VA USA

posted 28 January 2004 10:00 AM     profile   send email     edit
And although Bob S.'s original pot was a 100K as listed, I have several originals that are 500k ... both vol/tone.

I took a "poll" of my Prewar Ricks ...

The capacitors were those "tube" like ones:

The brown TIGER ones:

2 were .1 MFD 400 VDC
7 were .05 MFD 400 VDC
1 was .05 MFD 200 VDC

The orange SPRAGUE ones...

2 were .03 MFD (no VDC listed)


The potentiometers that that were labled said CENTRALAB (Milwaukee) .... most had big black cases ... one had a visible marking on the side that said 500K (volume).

But several of the big black ones checked out to be just under 500K ... a couple were around 250K.

Only one of the smaller metal ones (later prewars) said 500K (tone)... the others were not labled but were 250Ks.

It appears Rickys used whatever was available at the time ... like their tuning machines (strips, metal butterbeans, plastic ovals) and knobs (octagonal, arrows, flying saucers)

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