Custom 22 and 500T pickup

[Draggin]

Hello all,

Any tips on changing out my Dragon bridge pickup before I make any mistakes? I'm not too sure about the wiring... so if anybody has done this before, I would really appreciate your help. And how does it sound?
Thanks for any help.

[BBQLS1]

Gibson 500T? Don't expect there the be three wires like PRS pups have. One wire, and the sheild are all you have.

[Draggin]

So are you saying I shouldn't do it??

[BBQLS1]

So are you saying I shouldn't do it??

Not at all. If you have and want to keep the 5 way rotary, then you will have to disect the pup and add leads to keep 4 conductor wiring. If you have the three way and don't have/want to coil tap, then you should have no issues.

I actually liked the pup in a LP classic I had.

[jay66]

I have a 500T and it has 4 wires with the ground. some of the older ones might be 1 wire and a shield though.

[karma1]

I recently bought a mid-70's Ibanez "lawsuit" Les Paul Custom copy. Just last week I had a 500T installed in the bridge. I didn't do the work myself so I can't comment on the wiring, but I can comment on the tone. I only use the bridge pickup for high gain leads, and for that it's fantastic. It's very fat and creamy and sustains for days. I'm always looking for a good classic Santana tone, and this pickup nails it, especially through my Mesa Boogie amp. I think it would be especially suited to classic rock and hard rock. It sounds better than I expected - I'm very impressed.