Please help with wiring.

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Hi folks. Hope I can get some help from the experts. I purchased the faded Gibson sG, and played my firts gig with it lastnight. Loved how it played and sounded, but the dual volume thing drove kme nuts. I want one volume to control both pups. My friend says, "no problem, bring it over". We worked for 3 hours till I was almost in tears. We would get both pups working, but the volume control woudn't, then the volume workung, and one pup not. I know I too one of my old guitars I used to have and took it to a guitar tech and he set it up like this, but damn if we could. My friend said that the pot only had one wiper, and that's why he couldn't get both pups to the one pot, but I don't think my other had dual wipers, and the guitar tech did it just fine. Do I have to get a dual wiper volume pot for it, or is there a way to do this. Please, could anyone give me an easy diagram. many dual humbucker guitars come with one volume, so you would think diagrams would be easy to find, but I can't find one. All I want is a my three way switch and two humbuckers hooked to one volume, I don't even care about the tone controls either, if that would be easier, I don't use them. He hooked it back up like it originally was, but I really want one volume for both pups. Any detailed insructions or wiring puic would be great. Will I have to get a volume pot with two wipers? Again, if it would be easier to bypass the tone controls, that would be even better, but no necessary.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff
 
Wow, awesome. SD is cool for having that diagram up. That makes me want to buy couple humbuckers from them just for having services like that. What pups would be good all around pups for my SG from SD? I am into blues and really varied stuff, since I am a soloact and do many styles. What would be a couple good all-around buckers for my SG?

Thanks so much for the help.
 
The best all-around pickup is the SH-4 JB model. The 59 model and the Duncan Distortion are also very good choices. I've used these 3 pickups in all of my guitars.
 
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