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Topic: Wiring new Bill Lawrence pickup. |
Bradshaw Pack
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 11:14 am |
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Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong section of the forum. I have a new Bill Lawrence Lxr-16 12 string pickup. I am putting it into a Williams U-12. There are three wires coming out of the pick-up: black, red, and white. There are no instructions for this type of pickup on Bill's site. I want to make sure I get this right. What is the best way to wire this pickup into the guitar.
Thank you very much in advance for helping me out here,
Bradshaw
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 1:35 pm
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I'm not positive on the black and white, but i think the black goes to ground. The red wire is for wiring a spst switch to switch the pickup from humbucker to single coil. The red wire goes to one side of the switch and run a wire from the other side of the switch to ground. Flipping the switch only uses one of the two coils for the single coil setting and both for humbucker.
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George Macdonald
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Vancouver Island BC Canada
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Posted 22 Feb 2022 3:20 pm Lxr-16
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| Hi Bradshaw, Richard is correct. White wire is hot, black is ground, and you can ignore the red wire, [according to Becky], unless you want to split the coils. I have the same pickup in my 12 string Carter and I just coiled up the red wire and taped it to the underside. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 23 Feb 2022 4:01 am Re: Lxr-16
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| George Macdonald wrote: |
| Hi Bradshaw, Richard is correct. White wire is hot, black is ground, and you can ignore the red wire, [according to Becky], unless you want to split the coils. I have the same pickup in my 12 string Carter and I just coiled up the red wire and taped it to the underside. |
I had the XR16 in a Mullen SD12 I used to have, and in the E9 neck of my Carter. I did wire a switch in each one. The single coil is really nice, but it is really noisy in some venues, so I switch it to humbucker.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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George Macdonald
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Vancouver Island BC Canada
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Posted 23 Feb 2022 9:03 am Lxr-16
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Richard,
In the mid 70s Red Rohdes in North Hollywood wired an MSA 12 string for me with a switch to use either single coil or the two together. I never really liked either single coil and used it as a humbucker most of the time. I did use the bright single coil on an album that our Gospel group recorded at that time though when we lived in So. Calif.
I remember seeing Red at the Anaheim convention center playing through two Fender Princeton Reverb amps that he had boosted to about 100 watts each. He was an amazing guy. |
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Ron Pruter
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2022 9:40 am
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Richard, where did you get your locking collars on your pullers on the Carter? Looks like you have two types. A brass style and a steel type. RP
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John McClung
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Olympia WA, USA
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Posted 23 Feb 2022 10:23 am
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following...
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E9 INSTRUCTION
▪️ If you want to have an ongoing discussion, please email me, don't use the Forum messaging which I detest! steelguitarlessons@earthlink.net |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 23 Feb 2022 2:16 pm
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| Ron Pruter wrote: |
| Richard, where did you get your locking collars on your pullers on the Carter? Looks like you have two types. A brass style and a steel type. RP |
The locking collar style was offered by Bill Lipscome here on the forum. I don't know that he makes them any more. I did my whole E9 neck. Ghe C6 is still the old dog boner system. The brass ones are just on the lever reversing systems.
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