Dropped in the Jackson Electronic Luthiers custom harness into the SE245. I gotta say its gonna take some getting used to. Rand built this harness based on a Vintage 50's LP V&T set up. The factory set up has the Volume and Tone for the neck p/u in the forward position, and the bridge contols in the rear position, as they would sit on the face of the guitar. The J.E.L. harnes has the Neck V&T set on top (V front, T rear) and the bridge V&T bottom. A huge .022uf OIP capacitor spans between the V&T pots.
It took a minute to refigure the wiring, but once i wrote it down and drew cave drawings it all made sense. Install was pretty easy after that.
A couple things I noticed once everything was put back together:
- I cant roll volume up to 10, it cuts out at 9.5
- output seems a little diminished compared to the factory pots.
- it definitely has a more bluesy tone to it, but will stretch into grungy when the tones are tweaked.
I will have to play with the guitar through the week to relearn where the mojo lays in the pots.