Musima Elgita wiring diagram schematic circuit 15th August 2009

I'm hoping this is the only post anyone will ever need when it comes to Musima Elgita wiring. I've just got my Elgita back from Ant, who has made a lovely new neck for it, taking the original headstock shape but using the really nice profile from my Jazzmaster. It plays really well, amazingly in fact. It now falls to me to wire the thing up so it actually works. The wiring was stock and untampered-with, but a couple of the connections were broken. Taking hints from what was already there, the original 1973 Musima catalogue on Cheesy Guitars and this post by 'Snap' on Euroguitars.co.uk [mirror], I've produced the diagram on the right which I believe to be the correct stock wiring. Because I want to play this guitar, and want a normal neck pickup setting that isn't muffled as hell, I'll be disconnecting the 0.047uF cap when I wire mine up!

I'd like to thank Andy from Motor Sounds for photos of the wiring of his Elgita, which is partially original and helped confirm the layout. Also worth noting from Andy's Elgita is the original routing, as mine has been hacked-at by a maniac... I can only assume to save weight.

In summary:
R - Rhythm - Bridge pickup with both volume controls engaged, with no tone filtering, designed to set a lower preset volume for rhythm playing. Western guitars (eg Fender Jaguar, Jazzmaster) used the neck pickup in the rhythm setting).
S - Solo - Both pickups in parallel, with no tone filtering. Humbucking, and significantly louder than other settings.
B - Banjo - Bridge Pickup with small cap acting as a high pass filter.
SH - Shearing - I have no idea what 'shearing' was supposed to mean in this context, but it's the neck pickup with the big cap as a low pass filter, which sounds very muddy.

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