I own this 1976 Ibanez PJ bass that I am trying to put back together. There were a couple of loose wires in there, and I just can't seem to get it right. The switch works properly, the jack is good, the volume pot does what it is supposed to, and you can play it through an amp, BUT......The big problem is the tone knob is acting as a 2nd volume. It is doing the exact same thing pot 1 is doing, and that is controlling the volume for whatever position the three position switch is in. (This should be one volume, one tone). Can anyone look at these photos, and tell me how to fix this? Thanks for looking!
Last edited by shawn2000 : 10-26-2010 at 02:06 AM.
a part might be bad. when I restored my Ibanez PJ I gutted the electronics and bought everything new. I wired mine V/V/T and added a DPDT on/on/on switch for series/split/parallel
Should the capacitor be soldered to the back of the tone pot? Currently one leg of the cap is wired to the middle lug of the tone potentiometer and the other leg of the cap is directly soldered to the hot lug of the output jack. Seems a little odd.
Legs n Lugs. My wiring lingo blows!
Last edited by shawn2000 : 10-26-2010 at 06:19 PM.
Should the capacitor be soldered to the back of the tone pot? Currently one leg of the cap is wired to the middle lug of the tone potentiometer and the other leg of the cap is directly soldered to the hot lug of the output jack. Seems a little odd.
Legs n Lugs. My wiring lingo blows!
There are a couple different ways you could wire it here- the easiest method would be to unsolder the yellow wire from the tone pot and attach it to the hot lug on the output jack (alongside the capacitor). Everything should work just fine then. It is hard to tell how it was originally wired, as there is that extra solder pool on the back of the tone pot, but I'm guessing that maybe that black connection on the back of the pot was moved at some point?
Cool bass too- I just recieved a vintage Ibanez PJ myself. It was defretted well at some point and the J pickup is also a later addition (it is right up close to the bridge). I LOVE it- I also have an Ibanez Jazz from the same era that has one of the best necks I've laid hands on!
