These Premium kits are assembled by us in the UK with our CG by Jupiter Paper-in-Oil capacitors to give a warmer woody tone, CTS “CGS” SupraPots in the volume position to retain tone and note definition as you roll down the volume to give a more natural control and CTS "CG" for the tone controls.   We then sort through our potentiometers to create matched sets to give you an even response when rolling down your volume and tone controls.

This is a prewired harness for a USA Gibson Les Paul Melody Maker with a bridge single coil pickup.  For guitars with metric sized pots you may need to enlarge the holes for the higher quality US spec electronics to fit and also you may need US Spec knobs.

Gibson Melody Makers were shipped originally with 500K pots for both volume and tone to allow more of the pickups bright, clear high frequencies through.  Being a single coil many were replaced with 250K in the volume and tone positions and 500K in the volume and 250K in the tone position.

Differences between modern wiring and the popular 50’s wiring.

Please see the options below to customise your kit.

In the Kit:

• [1]  500K CTS “CGS” SupraPots, Short shaft with solid conversion sleeve with 9.5mm (3/8") Shaft Diameter and 9.5mm Threaded Length.
• [1] 500K CTS "CG" Short Shaft Matched Set Potentiometers with 9.5mm (3/8") Shaft Diameter and 9.5mm Threaded Length.
• [1] 0.022uf CG by Jupiter Paper-in-Oil capacitor
• [1] Switchcraft Mono Socket
• Wiring Diagram

Potentiometer/Kit Selection Table