Rats Nest.

[bubs_42]

@hamerhead, you are not making retirement  look very enticing. You were once a guy that brought back the Sustainblock better than Hamer ever did, and now look at you, derailed by sloppy wiring. Are you a Machinist or a Mouse?  Get back to work! 

[hamerhead]

'Feeble Geezer' is the name of my next band.

Plus, I just don't have the patience for that shit anymore. Twenty years ago, the Sustain Blocks were a labor of love. This, not so much. 

[holLoWskull]

Wow that looks like someone was trying to maybe put a resistor on the volume pot (preserve treble?) and who knows what the heck was going on with the other pot?   I found using a CTS concentric stacked pot (250K/250k or 250k/500k) for a piezo volume/tone works well if you want to follow the wiring diagram on Fishman’s website for a passive Powerbridge circuit.   Gives you a tone control for the pickups (plus the volume for the piezo) in one hole.   Feel free to PM me if you want any pix of a fairly simple (non-factory) wiring layout (with only one mini toggle though) that I did in my T-51F

[hamerhead]

Thanks, holLoWskull!! I may have to hit you up on that. 

Besides the 5-way and 2 volumes (1 for the Fishman, 1 for the regulars, no tone), there are 2 mini-toggles: a 2-way and a 3-way. Not 100% sure what they do. 

I'm probably going to go with a 5-way with separate volume and tone controls for the regular pickups, and a separate volume for the Fishman, to a TRS jack - and remove whatever the rest of that was supposed to be. It'll look like this:

Clean, simple, effective.

[hamerhead]

Proof-of-concept is functional, but it's tight and really needs to be done over. I used what I had laying here and, while it works, it's not great.

Three full-size pots physically won't fit in the space so I had to use a mini in the middle. Regular-size knobs were too close together to get your fingers in there, but these smaller ones do the trick. The extra hole in the plate bugs me but I can live with it until EVERYTHING gets replaced - plate, pots, wiring, etc...probably pickups, too. I'll seek professional help for that when the time comes.

But for now it all works. And it plays so nice I wore the strings out......

[Disturber]

19 hours ago, hamerhead said:

EVERYTHING gets replaced - plate, pots, wiring, etc...probably pickups, too.

Does it have the original, first gen, Duncan Broadcaster in the bridge? Mine sounds absolutely fantastic. It's one of the best tele bridge pickups I've ever played. And that includes two early 50's Fender teles.

[hamerhead]

The pickups appear to be original to the guitar. I'm a little surprised Dave's wasn't more on top of that, just calling the neck and bridge 'unmarked' - clearly not the case with the bridge pickup (though the neck has nothing):

Is that a Broadcaster?

I know shit about pickups other than if they sound OK. From what I've gleaned from the interweb, the middle is a Duncan Hot Stack and neck looks to be the one from the Broadcaster set:

Sorry for the crappy picture - not enough slack in the wires to get a good one.

 

[holLoWskull]

It looks like a Seymour Duncan Broadcaster from that era.  Based on the pix it certainly seems like the pickups are all “period correct” Duncans and most likely stock.  You scored a rare bird (or would it be a “rare rat” ? 😂) for sure. 👍🏻