Iperfungus
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Hi everyone! 
Max from Italy here.
Music Man guitars and basses lover, owner of some awesome MM beauties:
1) Silhouette
2) Luke III HH
3) Axis Super Sport HH
I recently purchased the Axis and, as soon as I brought her home, I noticed she needed some restoration.
Frets are almost new, beside tons of (removed) oxide, so this 2009 Axis was played a little through these years.
Maintenance, however, is truly of a very poor standard.
In any case, restoration process already took place and she's coming back to life.
I've to order volume and tone knobs and a set of new saddles (D one has blocked screws and there's no way to move them).
About the subject of this topic, I had a look to the circuit and wiring and I noticed that someone, most probably, put his hands inside control hole (instead of keeping them somewhere else inside pants) and did a little mess.
Pickup switch should work this way here:
1) bridge humbucker full
2) outer coils of both humbuckers (parallel)
3) both humbuckers full (parallel)
4) inner coils of both humbuckers (parallel)
5) neck humbucker full
Currently, instead, pickup switching works this way:
1) bridge humbucker full
2) outer coil of bridge humbucker (split)
3) both humbuckers full (parallel)
4) inner coil of bridge humbucker and outer coil of neck humbucker (parallel)
5) neck humbucker full
Now, I don't know if this job has been deliberately done or by mistake or if this was the original wiring in 2009 (but I don't think so...), but I don't care: I want the guitar back in its original configuration.
I found the official diagram here in the forum (thanks guys!!!) and I already found how to easily fix the issue (you can see a picture of current situation here): black and white wires of neck pickup are soldered to the "wrong" pin (they should be soldered together with green wire) and neck pickup's hot (red wire) must be rewired correctly.
I just have a doubt about the superswitch: the guitar is from 2009 and in the diagram a note reports that in 2011 there has been a modification (Rev B.).
Switch changed from RC778W to MC776W.
My question is: are there any relevant differences among these switches??
I had a look and it seems the switch is ok and it matches the one in the diagram, but you never know...
As far as I know, the original switch could have been changed and this could also explain the rewiring operations.
Some pictures of the beauty in attachment.
Thanks a lot in advance for any help!!
Max from Italy here.
Music Man guitars and basses lover, owner of some awesome MM beauties:
1) Silhouette
2) Luke III HH
3) Axis Super Sport HH
I recently purchased the Axis and, as soon as I brought her home, I noticed she needed some restoration.
Frets are almost new, beside tons of (removed) oxide, so this 2009 Axis was played a little through these years.
Maintenance, however, is truly of a very poor standard.
In any case, restoration process already took place and she's coming back to life.
I've to order volume and tone knobs and a set of new saddles (D one has blocked screws and there's no way to move them).
About the subject of this topic, I had a look to the circuit and wiring and I noticed that someone, most probably, put his hands inside control hole (instead of keeping them somewhere else inside pants) and did a little mess.
Pickup switch should work this way here:
1) bridge humbucker full
2) outer coils of both humbuckers (parallel)
3) both humbuckers full (parallel)
4) inner coils of both humbuckers (parallel)
5) neck humbucker full
Currently, instead, pickup switching works this way:
1) bridge humbucker full
2) outer coil of bridge humbucker (split)
3) both humbuckers full (parallel)
4) inner coil of bridge humbucker and outer coil of neck humbucker (parallel)
5) neck humbucker full
Now, I don't know if this job has been deliberately done or by mistake or if this was the original wiring in 2009 (but I don't think so...), but I don't care: I want the guitar back in its original configuration.
I found the official diagram here in the forum (thanks guys!!!) and I already found how to easily fix the issue (you can see a picture of current situation here): black and white wires of neck pickup are soldered to the "wrong" pin (they should be soldered together with green wire) and neck pickup's hot (red wire) must be rewired correctly.
I just have a doubt about the superswitch: the guitar is from 2009 and in the diagram a note reports that in 2011 there has been a modification (Rev B.).
Switch changed from RC778W to MC776W.
My question is: are there any relevant differences among these switches??
I had a look and it seems the switch is ok and it matches the one in the diagram, but you never know...
As far as I know, the original switch could have been changed and this could also explain the rewiring operations.
Some pictures of the beauty in attachment.
Thanks a lot in advance for any help!!
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