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I've got a 450/12 that has had the pickguard and a couple of the pots replaced. Whoever wired it has everything all messed up. I've got four new pots for it along with the schematic and I'm pretty much all set to start rewiring it. Does anybody have a good picture of the wiring for a 4 pot, 1 switch, mono guitar or bass just to help me pick out where the grounds were originally soldered to? It might help to see some of the colors, too, since a couple of the wires that have been replaced are pretty poor quality. I can try to use the correct colors when I replace those.
Thanks.

I have a few ****** pictures from my 450v63; the underside of the pickguard was part of the background when I was taking pictures of the rout area for a fellow Forumite.




I'll see if I can pull the pickguard again and get some better pictures in the next day or two.

Thanks Gary,
The two that you posted might be good enough. I started sorting through the mess some more last night and between the schematic and your pictures I think I can probably make it out. Whoever re-wired mine didn't do it anywhere near like the original.

Jeff - contact me at khowes-at-rickenbacker-dot-com.

Email sent,
Thanks.

Edited:
Oh yeah. Is it normal for a neck pup to read 14.1k and the bridge pup to read 6.6k on a '70s twelve-string? These look original and basically alike and I didn't notice any bigger of an output difference than on other Rics that I've owned.