Gibson Custom Shop Oxblood Reissue Wiring Queston

[dlsmusic]

The photo above is a picture from Reverb of a Gibson Custom Shop Jeff Beck Oxblood control cavity, the one released in 2009. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the modern Les Paul wiring and not the 50s style wiring. I searched the internet and wasn't able to determine what wiring Jeff actually had in his guitar, but I would suspect that the Custom Shop recreated whatever was in his guitar. Any thoughts on this? Did he really have the modern wiring? And if so, why would the recent Epiphone Oxblood have the 50s wiring?

 

[slammintone]

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The photo above is a picture from Reverb of a Gibson Custom Shop Jeff Beck Oxblood control cavity, the one released in 2009. Unless I'm mistaken, this is the modern Les Paul wiring and not the 50s style wiring. I searched the internet and wasn't able to determine what wiring Jeff actually had in his guitar, but I would suspect that the Custom Shop recreated whatever was in his guitar. Any thoughts on this? Did he really have the modern wiring? And if so, why would the recent Epiphone Oxblood have the 50s wiring?

Don’t know if Becks real Oxblood had that wiring or not, but I’d be inclined to leave it as is if it were mine. Usually, when Gibson did the modern wiring, the volume controls were 300k and you wouldn’t get the full effect from the 50s wiring anyhow.


I got to play one of the Oxbloods from that series in 2009-2010 at a Guitar Center. Apart from the fact it had the fattest neck I’ve ever played and weight about 9.5 lbs, it sounded lean and mean and if I could have afforded one I’d have jumped on it! Man that thing was cool.



My 2001 Lucille has the modern wiring and it sounds great so, she’s staying exactly how Gibson made her. Over the years I’ve tried changing pots, caps, wiring schemes etc and somehow, the factory setup usually won when I’d go back to whatever the stock wiring was.

YMMV of course.

 

[slammintone]

As far as why that Beck Oxblood on Reverb has the modern wiring (did they all? IDK), I know for a fact that R9s R8s and R7s that I bought new until at least 2006 all had modern wiring. That was the standard thing for years with modern Gibsons until I started seeing factory 50s wiring with all 500k audio taper pots sometime after 2006, it’s been awhile. Maybe the 2009 Oxbloods were being made before Gibson Custom shop started doing the 50s wiring again for all the Historic LPs.
It would be nice to find out what wiring the original Oxblood Beck owned has.

 

[lapstor]

Yes, the Gibson Custom Shop 2009 "Jeff Beck Oxblood" model does indeed have 1950s style wiring

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