BKP in Ibanez Reversed Magnet

[Raymond]

Hello everyone

I have a covered set of BKP painkiller that I want to fit into an Ibanez H-H with a 5-way switch. I just found out that the stock neck pup is a reversed magnet. The neck BKP is not.

How can I wire the BKP pups so that I do not have any phase or hum problem?
Can I just turn the neck pickup around so that the pole screws face the fretboard  and reverse the wiring code?

Please can you help me   :o

Thank you

[Attica!]

Turning the pickup round will be virtually switching the wires (I think) and if you don't switch the wires, it will be basically the same pickup, maybe a bit twangier, but hardly noticeable. It's pointless really :/ I have a HH setup with the Ibanez 5-way wiring and I had to have the Neck Pickup with reverse polarity. I'm not sure how it would work if it wasn't though, but I know for the 5-way, having the neck pickup's polarity reversed is pretty important.

Maybe send Tim an email an see if he can do something for you. Where did you get the pickup from btw?

Also maybe get a 3 way switch? You can get them to replace 5-way switches.

[darkbluemurder]

If you don't want to reverse the magnet yourself (I did this with a BKP once - it is not too difficult unless the pickup is covered) then turning the pickup around will get you the correct magnet polarity stagger for the Ibanez wiring. However you need to make sure that in the switch positions that split the humbuckers that the correct coil combination is working.

Cheers Stephan