Stagemaster 7 pickups, wiring

[parkrider]

Hi,

I was fortunate enough to recently acquire a Stagemaster 7. Unfortunately, under a previous owner, the jack plate broke and I'm told pulled some wiring by way of having been plugged in at the time.

The photos below show the wiring state as received. It looks like an unsuccessful repair was attempted previously. The pickups each have a black wire, a white wire, and a shield. Black wires are connected to the 3-way selector, shield wire is connected to the volume potentiometer ground point, though the white wires are left floating, not connected to anything.

Hoping someone may have a good photo of the original wiring on these? or some further insight.

Thanks!

 

[parkrider]

I was able to compare notes with another Stagemaster 7 owner today. Theirs also had the white pickup lead wires floating unconnected.

With that I un-soldered the bridge pickup on mine and took some DC resistance measurements:

Shield/bare wire to black wire: 16k-ohm
Shield/bare wire to white wire: 8k-ohm
White wire to black wire: 8k-ohm

So it seems shield/bare wire is of course ground, black is the hot wire, and white is an unused coil-split.

 

[wickedtools]

Well appears you will have a great reference here. There are not very many Stagemaster 7 here. I had one but sold a time ago. This are very collectible, mine had been upgraded to Dimarzios with coil splits before I got it. Good luck!

 

[wickedtools]

I would assume if you put a 5way switch you can connect the white wire for your coil split. That would make more sense than wire just floating.

 

[aoresteen]

A 5 way will not do a HxH coil-split. A Super-Switch (5-way) will.

I have 6 of these 7 strings, good guitars. Most of them have been converted to HSH & new pickups. Here are 3. The centre one has since been converted to a HSH.



I have one converted to a 7 String baritone 28" neck.

Good luck!