Author Topic: Ibanez HSH wiring - help needed asap (Read 3953 times)

Crazy_Joe · « **on:** June 11, 2007, 12:25:41 PM »

I am selling the Ibanez due to me growing out of the whammy bar and it being too much of a pain to use. It is on ebay now so i need help quickly.
Not necessarily to buy another guitar, i might just stick with my Explorer.

Anyways i took out the holy divers then put the ibanez ones back in but didn't want to put strings on in case i got the wiring wrong, and i think i have even though i have followed the wiring diagram perfectly.

I tapped the pickups with a screw driver and when it is switched to neck the bridge makes a noise and the neck doesn't etc and im pretty sure its supposed to be the other way around.

I followed the 1996 RG505 diagram here and i can't see what i have done wrong, though i don't see why one of the enck wires on that diagram goes to a tag where it is switched to engage the bridge pickup so i thought maybe swap that with another wire of the birdge pickups which is at the tag where the neck pickup is engaged if you get what im saying!
http://www.ibanez.com/support/wiringdiagrams.aspx

All help is appreciated!

Philly Q · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2007, 02:28:42 PM »

Don't know, Joe, but there's another Ibanez wiring diagram in this thread which might be a bit easier to follow.

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2007, 03:03:14 PM »

Cheers, myn is not the same as that so i'm guessing it will work if i do it like that one.

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2007, 03:27:01 PM »

Just wired it up like that diagram and did the screwdriver test and it seems as if everything is working, though i won't properly know till the strings go on, but thanks for that Philly Q!!

Philly Q · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2007, 09:15:43 PM »

Glad it worked. So what'll you do with the HDs?

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2007, 09:59:45 PM »

I like them a lot so i'll probably keep them for a future guitar, though they don't go with a lot of the guitars that i look at/buy just being black open coiled so i might sell them and try something different.

Transcend · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2007, 02:21:13 PM »

Quote from: Crazy_Joe

I like them a lot so i'll probably keep them for a future guitar, though they don't go with a lot of the guitars that i look at/buy just being black open coiled so i might sell them and try something different.

link to auction please :D

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2007, 01:29:42 PM »

Woo! Stringed up (only 15 minutes! record floyd time) pickups work i thought they didn't at first and was about to cry but then saw a wire not plugged in properly! :P

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