epiphone vs. p rails - ROUND 1!
This post is the first in what will hopefully only be a 2 part blog.
I had the opportunity to get some gear brought over to me from the US and I asked the band mates for suggestions. Ben recommended the P RAILS made by seymour duncan. To make a long story short, they do cool stuff!
After watching a few demos on youtube, I was sold and quickly began to order parts to be brought over to the other side of the world.
I boned up on my seymour duncan installation diagram and decided to try and do it myself! How hard could it be right?
Marc came over to offer support as well as an extra dose of common sense. Stella was there too.
Here is what I had for gear....
So we hit the epiphone hard with lots of gusto. After cracking it open and seeing the state of the wires inside, we began to question whether or not it could be done. We spent about 3 hours messing with it and cross referencing the diagram and any help we could find on youtube. We were in the end foiled by the proprietry wire that was connected to the 3 way switch. I think our big mistake was thinking we could reuse the existing wires and simply disconnect and reconnect them to the right parts. As it turns out, the wiring is significantly different then the factory wiring, no doubt mostly because of the difference in the circuitry of the push pull pots which I need because of the nature of the P Rails.
Finally we through in the towel and admitted defeat... at least for the night.
After some careful thought and the fact that I know have a guitar that doesn't work, I decided to get some extra wires and rewire the 3 way switch from scratch. That and I have also modified the wiring diagram by color coding the wires so I can tell what exactly is going on.
With a little dutch courage, I hope to finish this off in time to have a working guitar by tomorrow!
I also hope to avoid a repeat of this!
Stay tuned for round 2!!!!
