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Hi Guys below is the text of an Email I have received can anyone help. Any further questions let me know and I'll ask him

Hello, Im looking to restore my grandmothers 60's Baldwin guitar, Im trying to find the wiring diagram, as the pots are bad and cannot read any info or get readings on my meter as to what values the pots are, I was told 500K and 250K but I want to put the correct parts in to preserve the originality as possible. It is in excellent condition and has been in its case most of its life. When I was a young boy, my grandmother would take the guitar out and I would drewel over it, lol! (Not really). It always had a loose volume or tone control and the wires got twisted and eventually broke. She has since passed and I wanted to restore this guitar in honor of my grandmother. Any info or schematic would be great for this project.

What's the question?

The guitar sounds like a Baldwin 706.



PS: Any good local luthier should be able to do the re-wiring plus any adjustments or set-up which proves necessary.

The pickup wiring harness and layout is relatively straightforward- pretty much a standard 2 pickup setup with tone and volume for each pickup and a selector switch- plus possibly a master volume pot as per JimN's photo- although I'm not sure that this control was standard on those models, and the pickups in that photo aren't standard either. Those Baldwin models were made in Italy BTW..

If those pickups are humbuckers they will need 500k pots and .022 caps.

balston11 wrote:Hi Guys below is the text of an Email I have received can anyone help. Any further questions let me know and I'll ask him

Hello, Im looking to restore my grandmothers 60's Baldwin guitar, Im trying to find the wiring diagram, as the pots are bad and cannot read any info or get readings on my meter as to what values the pots are, I was told 500K and 250K but I want to put the correct parts in to preserve the originality as possible. It is in excellent condition and has been in its case most of its life. When I was a young boy, my grandmother would take the guitar out and I would drewel over it, lol! (Not really). It always had a loose volume or tone control and the wires got twisted and eventually broke. She has since passed and I wanted to restore this guitar in honor of my grandmother. Any info or schematic would be great for this project.

Lots of images here- I'm sure it would be like many of those shown. As I said before, I would guess that any reasonable repairer/luthier in the vicinity of your correspondent could fix up the wiring etc

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=bald ... 73#imgrc=_

As the owner of a 712T (the thin-neck 12-string version) who has had the pots out for cleaning, the first really tricky part is wriggling the pots and their wiring harness out through the lower f-hole. The second really tricky part is getting them back. Before removing each pot, (having taken off the knob and securing nut) wrap some thin, tough, cord round each shaft and secure it with sellotape. Then as the pot is withdrawn, it leaves behind a cord (hanging out of the hole) which can be used to gently guide the pot (or a replacement pot) back in place.

I don't remember the value of the pots, but as said above, 500K log for the volumes and 500K lin for the tones will give good results if you have to replace them. Also as mentioned above, the 700 series did not have a Master Volume control.