Lace Alumatone - Help

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Niels Andrews
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Lace Alumatone - Help

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I started working on one of my guitars this morning. One thing was change the pick up. I see my supersustain has two wires and my Alumatone has four, anybody have any ideas?
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Post by Jon Light (deceased) »

My Alumitones only have 2 leads but via a quick search---if you are looking at 1 white, 1 green and 2 orange wires, tie the white & green together to ground, tie the 2 oranges together to hot.
If that's not what you've got, what have you got?

http://www.lacemusic.com/pdf/12.pdf
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You guys are what make this forum so great. I have the information I need to proceed. Better than Google, our own ask the expert.
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Post by Ken Metcalf »

The old Alumatones are 3 wire and the newer ones have a coil tap type thing... 4 wires
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Post by Niels Andrews »

Finished with install. Happy all the way around.
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