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Hi! This is my Sho Bud Fingertip, I have played this guitar a lot, and I have never thought the wiring was correct. There is a capacitor that has broken from its connection and is just hanging down. The control was a tone control, but now does nothing. I have never really known what the two little switches are supposed to do. Can anyone give me a diagram of how this is supposed to be wired, and what capacitor I need to get to replace the one that has come off? I would like to wire this like it would have been originally.Thanks for your help!

I think the switches were coil taps, a nice feature especially when using effects like phaser or chorous etc. The tone pot is probably not working as the capacitor is broke off. Nice looking outfit!

These guitars are probably wired very straight ahead and basic. Can you post a picture of the wiring?
Caps are dirt cheap. Get one for a typical single coil guitar pick up. Try Stewart- MacDonald or Antique electronics. Cool old gutar. Looks like two coil tap switches, one neck selector and a tone potentiometer. RP

Ron Pruter wrote:These guitars are probably wired very straight ahead and basic. Can you post a picture of the wiring?
Caps are dirt cheap. Get one for a typical single coil guitar pick up. Try Stewart- MacDonald or Antique electronics. Cool old gutar. Looks like two coil tap switches, one neck selector and a tone potentiometer. RP

Thank you both for your replies! And thank you for the compliments on my guitar! I am inexperienced in wiring of electric guitars, but I would have no problem resoldering a cap back in, I just dont know exactly what it should attach to. I will try to get a picture and upload it. Currently, the piece that is still attached, is on a wire coming from the selector switch

Try a magnifying glass to see if you can find where the cap was attached. Often it's quite obvious.

As far as i know the Capacitor should have one lead going to the tone pot output and the other to tone pot case for bleed off to ground, look at tone pot closely see if there's a leg hanging.