JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
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So I've been torturing this lovely 70's Peavey T-60, my first electric, for 35 years - I finally had mercy on it & took it to a guitar tech & I'm over the moon 馃グ it's like getting it back, only better 馃挍

'Twas in fact Rasmus, the tech, who gave me the final push; when I told him I had it he said "with original wiring?" & I was like 馃憘馃憘 what!? Turns out it's pretty unique, especially for its age - more in comment but basically the tone pot is also a reverse coil splitter 馃く 馃У

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Me, sitting with my first guitar, reborn, in front of my little music corner, turning the tone knob as I play to demo the difference between single coil and humbucker mode
Me, sitting with my first guitar, reborn, in front of my little music corner, turning the tone knob as I play to demo the difference between single coil and humbucker mode
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
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So what's going on here is, even though it's equipped with humbuckers, if the tone knob is turned up fully the pickup operates in single-coil mode & then when you roll the knob back to about 7 it switches into humbucker mode 馃 This has the effect of boosting the output, which guitarists & shops not savvy about this instrument apparently often thought was a flaw, so many T-60s were opened & rewired, robbing them of this extremely cool feature 馃槱 there's even more to this circuit 馃У
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
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  • much of which I don't understand at a technical level, like cap-only treble bleed, coil/tone blend etc., but I do understand the upshot, which is that it's an instrument with an incredibly versatile tone range.

    I should also mention that one of my assaults on it involved replacing the bridge PU with a Seymor Duncan JB, killing the unique split function - having the original back I can't imagine what I could have possibly been dissatisfied with 馃槤

    More on the circuit: https://www.premierguitar.com/diy/mod-garage/peavey-t-60