USA Peaveys

[ajish4]

OK, I added a third factory pickup to my T-60. I'm calling it a T-63. I thought she was awesome before---now she's really cool!

WOW!

Matt,

That is very cool indeed! Love the PG too!

How is it wired up?

[whojamfan]

Nice! Does Peavey still sell those pickups?

[ajish4]

Nice! Does Peavey still sell those pickups?

I don't think so Mike, although they do sell a lot of parts for their guitars.

They come up pretty regularly on Ebay. Of course, a quick to Peavey Customer Svc will tell you for sure.

"Customer and Technical Support If you have to order replacement parts,
please call us at 877-732-8391 (toll free in the US) or 601-483-5365."

[jps]

Nice! Does Peavey still sell those pickups?

I don't think so Mike, although they do sell a lot of parts for their guitars.

They come up pretty regularly on Ebay. Of course, a quick to Peavey Customer Svc will tell you for sure.

"Customer and Technical Support If you have to order replacement parts,
please call us at 877-732-8391 (toll free in the US) or 601-483-5365."

I thought you were Peavey Customer Service.

[Matt Clark]

Nice! Does Peavey still sell those pickups?

Thanks!

Unfortunately, a T-60 had to die, or at least be maimed for me to do this. The pickup was an e-bay requisition from a butchered instrument. I had to wait for an auction with the rail style pickups before I could do this. I really never thought about contacting Peavey, I just assumed they did not support these pickups anymore.

[Matt Clark]

OK, I added a third factory pickup to my T-60. I'm calling it a T-63. I thought she was awesome before---now she's really cool!

How is it wired up?

OK, Tony at PickGuardian.com did the guard for me. I sent him my original and a modified tracing. I had to relax the curve above the middle pickup a bit as the lowest screw hole would be right about where the top of the pickup would go-plus of course, adding the third pickup hole.

As far as wiring goes, I didn't do it myself, but I can give you a rough description of what was done.

With a center pickup there was no need for the phase switch anymore so it bacame a coil tap. This allowed the tone pots to be more dynamic as position 10-7 no longer cause the coil tap like the original wiring. So, the top two pots (closest to the strings) are still tone pots for the bridge and neck pickups. The lower front pot is a volume for everything and the lower back pot is a fade for the middle pickup.

With the fade pot, I get all of the out of phase tones I need. I also believe he swapped the polarity of the middle pickup so when the coils are tapped, regardless of the middle pickup being "on" or not, it cancels out the coil hum. Cool, right?

If you thought T-60 sounded great before, you should hear this one!