Rewiring a Gibson ES-335TD with '50s Wiring Explained

See my first video for more details:

And for more information on '50s Wiring, see:

I recommend A2 Guitars' entire series on guitar wiring. Good stuff.

[mihailmilev]

THANK YOU, finally someone explains this with some semblance of actual specific info

[joelazar]

This was a great explanation, thank you. I’m about to do some work on my heritage 535 and am leaning toward 50s wiring. This was a helpful POV on what it’s all about. It’s not paper and snake oil!

[MATTE.U.K]

Is it true that you get less interference and a lower noise floor with 50s wiring?

[HeathWatts]

Is it expensive to have an ES-335 rewired? They don't have a nice access port like a Les Paul has.

[CargoShorts]

Hey great video man! I recently switched my Heritage 535 to 50s wiring (sorta strange that Heritage ships their guitars with modern wiring even though they’re vintage flavored) but it’s been sort of tricky to get used to. I read things like Joe Bonamassa hardly ever plays with his volume knobs on 10, more like around 7/8. But the problem I’m running into is that my bridge pup sounds pretty dang bright to where I have to roll the bridge tone back to 2/3 for it to sound like a good chewy vintage PAF. That made me think the tone setting in my amp was too high, but when I switch to the neck pickup, it sounds nice and full and crisp with the volume and tone at 10, but when I roll back the volume, I still lose to much top end. Been fun, but tricky to get used to. Could that be the particular pots in my axe?

[archilchkhikvishvili]

Pleaaaasee, take care of the sound quality of your videos. I love your channel, but I think that either your camera records a bad quality audio, or Youtube cuts down it very low.