Danelectro Longhorn wiring question

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I once rewired a 62 style Jazz Bass series the same way as a Dano with great success. The owner could use separate tone knobs without tone sucking induced by resistors as used in the original 62 wiring. Much thicker and crisper tone than a jazz bass though. Not recommended if you like a warm, gentle wobbly J bass tone.
I think it is a clever wiring that doesn't try to sound like others. It shines with pickups that have a bright tone and not too much bass.

Thanks for posting this. I figured that circuit would work in a non-Dan bass, but you're the first I've definitively heard doing it. Very cool.

Always seemed to me an underappreciated circuit.

 

[John S Indy]

I pulled these from Cadfael's massive pdf (available in this forum) of every durn bass you can think of LOL. Truly a piece of work. All text is in German, but doesn't matter for the diagram you're asking for.

I found one Longhorn without a switch. Hopefully this matches up for you.
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A closer view of the diagram and schematic.
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My own schematic I drew up awhile back. Just simpler for me to read, but it's the same. I'm a simple minded guy like that LOL.
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Hope this helps. This is a very unique circuit design, in my opinion.

It's a great design. Specifically each pickup is independent (unlike a Gibson four pot design). You can run the bridge pickup with full treble and the neck pickup with full bass on the tone control and still get high frequency output from your bridge pickup. This is very versatile.

 

[Bobbadfinger]

Did anybody rewired a Longhorn to one volume/one tone config ?

I'm not a fan of the concentric knobs, plus I just use both pickups on full (tone is fuller AND louder).
Pickups would remain series connected; and thinking about using 250K for tone (with the 1M pot it's really an on-off switch) and also 250K for volume (less loading than the 100K ?)

What do you think ?