Pre-Wired Premium Historic Les Paul Wiring Harness (Short Shaft)
All of our wiring harnesses are proudly built in Burgaw, NC!
In 1957, the already famous Les Paul guitar was offered with dual humbucking pickups for the first time ever, and the world of music would never be the same.
Our Premium Historic Les Paul Wiring Harness is built to the same specs as the original, with '50s wiring, authentic reproduction Luxe Sprague Bumblebee paper-in-oil capacitors, our easy to turn custom vintage taper CTS pots, and Switchcraft for the switch and jack.
We build these by hand with vintage-correct braided wiring to make this look and feel like it just showed up from 1957 and is ready to rock!
Bring your Les Paul back to the way it used to be, with no compromises and all the tone you could want.
- CTS 500k vintage taper short shaft potentiometers
- Switchcraft long straight toggle switch
- Switchcraft mono input jack
- Luxe repro Bumblebee capacitors
- Vintage correct external braided wire
- Detailed wiring diagram
Ratings & Reviews
2 reviews
Worth the money
by Cullen -
Best you’re gonna find for a nice les paul. I wanted the vintage tone for a very nice R9 with paf pickups, and this is the ticket! Save the orange drops for your modern guitars. The instructions leave out the earth ground, but that should be common knowledge. I really wanted to be able to roll off my volume knob with an even sweep without losing treble or a ton of gain. This doesn’t really do that, I still lose quite a bit of everything quickly. But it works great and the tone is insane! I think to achieve that you’d want to go the modern wiring route with treble bleeds and such. I tried that too, this sounds way better imo. Last but most importantly…. Huge thanks to Andrew Simmons for taking the time to explain their products and help me find the right one. Excellent customer service and quality with these folks. I’ve been using the 4 way harness in my tele for several years with zero issues
Best feel and EQ pots period.
by Paul Fullem -
I have purchased a few of these vintage wiring kits. And I have had every other high end boutique brand, Throbak, RS Guitarworks, VIP Pots, etc. These are the best for two reasons: the taper is very usable all up and down and doesn’t drop off at 7, nor does is just retain treble as you go down the entire travel (it does) but retains some fullness of the lower frequencies too. Hard to explain sound.
And the second reason: low low torque. When other manufacturers say “low torque” they’re all lying. These feel like their 50 years old. Barely any resistance as you use the pot. Awesome!
I bought a kit for a ES-330 and it changed the guitar. Also, don’t skimp—get the Luxe caps too. I mean, you can’t go wrong with anything they sell, but there IS a subtle difference and this you can get many shades of tones with a good cap. Oh, and their pre-soldering is impeccable and actually saves you (or your tech) time on the bench.