Washburn N2 problem

[aerocol]

Hi!!

Just got a Washburn Nuno, one of the early ones and th epush pull doesn't seem to make any difference. The bill lawrence tone is weak and seems like a single coil is only active. I looked at the wiring and it followed seymour duncans colour coding. I then got the details of the codes of bill lawrence pickups and wired accordingly. Now the problem has changed. In humbucker mode I get a really thin/ shrill tone and very weak and in split mode the tone is beefier and doesn't sound far off. I don't have a blue wire just red and green together for split, white as hot and black and ground.

Strangely, if my ground is connected, my hubucker reads 5 kohm in split and humbucker mode. Without my ground connected my humbucker is 11.5 k and split is something like 5.6k.

Did Bill Lawrence have different coding specifically for the nuno guitars??
Is my pickup broken?

Cheers
Col

[Akhenaten]

I've encountered a similar issue in the past with Lawrence L500XL's. I love the early 90's Dave Mustaine King V Pros and they had that pickup in the neck. Apparently BL's wiring codes were sometimes not always accurate. If I remember correctly, i have three of the same pickup wired 3 different ways.

Does it sound kinda like it's outta phase with itself? Really thin and maybe half the volume of what you'd expect? I had one that didn't even make any noise when i wired it once. I had to site there and try different color combos until I found the powerful one...

[aerocol]

Hiya,

Yep, spot on, thats exactly whatits like. Maybe the power of a single coil but the neck humbucker blasts it away volume wise.

I found another diagram on the net with different colour codes so I am going to try that !

How awkward... I hope the pickup is worth it when its working...

Cheers
Col

[aerocol]

Hi,

Well I think I now have it sorted.........

This is the colour code I ended up with , pretty useless for current Bill Lawrence users, but anyone with a 92 era N2 Nuno may have the same pickup batch and colours and may also find the washburn wiring came wrong from new!!!!!

Black - hot
Green and White - coil tap
Red - ground
Braid - ground

Hope this helps someone

The readings I get now are 11.4 kOhm full 5.6 kOhm split.

Does this seem right for a nuno lawrence?? Is it the LX 500 model???

Not as hot as I thought it should be.........

Col

[andrusch]

hi there,

who could send me a drawing or picture of the original wiring of the N2? I changed my pick-ups few years ago and want to turn it back, but donīt know how to connect the wires...

thx
andrusch

[aerocol]

Hiya!!


I could certainly tell you what I know, but you wouldn't want my original washburn spec because it was wired all wrong at the factory!!!!

If you have a modern Bill Lawrence humbucker you should be ok with his 'new' colour codes. If its the BL from your original N2 then you *may* have the same trouble as I did (and others) figuring out which colours are correct........

Do you still have the push pull volume pot there?

mail me aerocol@blueyonder.co.uk

cheers
Col