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leeharton

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wiring help
« on: March 06, 2010, 10:54:55 PM »
hi there. ive only ever wired one pickup into a guitar, that was a seymour duncan onto a les paul which was quite straightforward, but ive become slightly confused with wiring the nailbomb into another guitar.
 its a 2 humbucker, 1 tone, 1 volume, 3 way selecter. both of the stock pickups were 2 conducter....which i neglected to look at before purchasing the nailbomb, which is a 4 conducter. i was wondering if there was any way of wiring it up properly, as ive tried a few different variations all to no result. below is what the electrics look like.
sorry about the sloppy paint picture :lol:


any help would be extremely appreciated
« Last Edit: March 06, 2010, 10:56:57 PM by leeharton »

PhilKing

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Re: wiring help
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2010, 11:31:19 PM »
Take the red to the switch contact where you are removing the other pickup (I'm assuming the bridge, so where the inner wire of the blue lead goes to).  Solder the black and bare wire to the ground on the switch and you should be all set.
So many pickups, so little time

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Re: wiring help
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2010, 11:32:39 PM »
Looks like you need:

* Green and white stay together, covered with tape, not connected to anything else
* Black and bare to the central earth in the middle of the toggle switch
* Red to the three-way switch tag

If you're only swapping the bridge pickup, and then get a really thin and weedy tone in the middle position, swap the black and red wires over on the Nailbomb (that will stop it being "out of phase" with the neck humbucker)

Let us know if that works  :)

leeharton

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Re: wiring help
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2010, 01:29:07 AM »
right.....i think ive tried it how both of you have described, but at the moment all im getting is silence mixed with a little bit of hiss...ive tried both the red and black/bare where all 3 wires meet up on the switch.....and also tried both on the bridge part of the switch...obviously alternating each time, but to no avail.

im getting quite confused with it now haha.

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Re: wiring help
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2010, 11:12:33 PM »
You aren't representing here the pot's lugs and they are important.

You should have all this wired as follows:

Neck pickup (you aren't providing enough info):

The braid part must be soldered to the common earth lug of the pickups selector switch, the hot wire (inside) must be soldered to the lower lug of that selector switch.
If it isn't a single braided pickup type but, 2 conductors (usually white and black) + bare wire then:
White to the lower lug of selector and black&bare to the backside of volume pot.

Bridge pickup (nailbomb):

Red wire to upper lug of pickups' selector.
White&Green soldered together and covered with some isolant tape.
Black&bare soldered to the backside of the volume pot (common earth).

Rest of components:

From the middle lug of the selector pickup, throw a jumper to the right lug of volume's pot (looking at the pot with lugs facing you and the rod facing ceil).
Ground the left lug of the volume pot (backside of same pot).
Throw a jumper from the middle lug of volume pot to the middle lug of the tone pot.
One leg of the cap should be soldered to the left lug of the tone pot, the other lug should be soldered to the backside of the tone pot.
From the middle lug of the tone pot, throw a wire to the tip of the jack.

Be sure that any ground wire is soldered also to the backside of the volume pot:
- Jack sleeve
- Bridge claw
- cavity shield (if shielded)

If cavity is shielded, you are done. Otherwise:
- throw a jumper from the earth point of the selector switch to the backside of volume pot.
- throw a jumper from the backside of the tone pot to the backside of volume pot

As someone other already pointed, if after trying it, you find the middle position as sounding thin, nasal, hollow and trebly, both pickups are out-of-phase so, please, just swap red with black in nailbomb