Wiring for a Lawrence 705

[Bob Jennings]

I have a Lawrence 705 but have it wired just for the Humbucking. I would like to wire it for the various tones but have misplaced or can't find the wiring diagram and if I had it, I probably couldn't figure it out. Will anyone send me wiring instructions. I'm Mechanical and need real simple instructions like--what wires go where and what kind of a switch would I use--how many sounds could I get--the switch would be a two-way/three-way toggle? What I need is instructions telling me what colored wires go to a switch and then to the output of the guitar in easy to understand.

Bob J.

[Chuck Lemasters]

Bob,
You need a switch with three positions. I bought a DPDT switch, on, off, on....the green and white wires need to be connected to the center position of the switch. The red wire is connected to one of the on(outside) switch positions. The black wire is connected to the other on(outside) position. The connection of the red wire is then wired to the hot side (tip) of the output jack and the black and ground wire are connected from the switch to other side of the output jack. I am not much of an electronics guy, and even worse with a soldering iron, but was able to figure it out after searching on the forum. You end up with the coil by the bridge by itself, humbucking mode, or the coil on the fret board end by itself. I prefer the tone of the pickup in either of the single coil positions. They are, of course, much lower in volume than the pickup in humbucking mode, and I assume much lower than a regular single coil pickup would be, given windings of about 9000 ohms, half the strength of the humbucker and considerably less than most single coil pickups. The only down side for me is the shift in the volume pedal position for equal volume between the two modes. Hope this helps.

[Bob Jennings]

Chuck Lemasters,

Thank you for the wiring info--I'll get a Switch and do the wiring--I understand it the way you wrote it, Thanks again!!
Bib J.