lautmaschine
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Recently I read over some posts discussing the various pros and cons of the typical wiring schematics used by Guild. This got me curious about what inside of my 1967 Starfire IV. For those of you who haven't seen, here's the Starfire wiring layout from the Guild website:
Here's the wiring layout from my 1967 (from a redraw I did in Photoshop):
The major difference is the pickups are wired to the outer lugs instead of the middle lugs. The ground is also wired up differently. All pots are CTS, dated from 1966 to early 1967. The .01mf is a mustard cap. The .047mf is an MKS film - obviously a recent replacement prior to my purchasing the guitar. Also of note, all the pots are 500K, except for the neck tone pot, which is 200k. I didn't actually measure all the 500Ks, but I took a measurement from the bridge tone pot and got 420K and I noted that the other two pots had the exact same part #s...
Here's the wiring layout from my 1967 (from a redraw I did in Photoshop):
The major difference is the pickups are wired to the outer lugs instead of the middle lugs. The ground is also wired up differently. All pots are CTS, dated from 1966 to early 1967. The .01mf is a mustard cap. The .047mf is an MKS film - obviously a recent replacement prior to my purchasing the guitar. Also of note, all the pots are 500K, except for the neck tone pot, which is 200k. I didn't actually measure all the 500Ks, but I took a measurement from the bridge tone pot and got 420K and I noted that the other two pots had the exact same part #s...