HBB-5 wiring help

[junbaekong]

Hello, I am a total infant in guitar building and now trying to build my first one, HBB-5.

I have 2 questions which I am hoping someone could help me with.

1. I can’t seem to find wiring diagram for HBB-5, so I checked the diagram for 2 humbucker, 2 volumn, 2 tone and 3 way switch one.

In the diagram, wires from the pickups are 2, hot or ground, but I see more than 2 wires coming out from the pickup.

Can someone please help me with that? I can’t figure out which goes where. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180528/c31ad065c7abfcd466c22f262e9067fd.jpg


2. I think I figured out what most of the parts are for, but I can’t figure out

1) what that yellow wire is for
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180528/7f5edd72088ebe4860cf0464c6734ac5.jpg

and 2) what that L shaped thing is
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180528/4d747370dfd43e50bf2c73be12e54223.jpg

Thanks in advance


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[WeirdBits]

The 4-wire pickups are configured as:
Black = hot
Red/White = series link between coils (just insulate the bare tip with tape/heatshrink so it can't short)
Green/Bare = ground.

New kit so the ES(x)- diagram (https://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/PBG-2H2v2t3_bass_V3.pdf) should be a good match for it, using the above hot & ground colours.

The L-bracket is to support the pickguard, like on an LP or other styles where it's elevated.

If the yellow wire is core with bare shield/screen, it's most likely for the connection to the output jack or for the long run to/from the switch (new'ish kit, haven't seen it in person).

[Simon Barden]

Hi and welcome.

Pickups: If those are the way the wires came from the factory, then the black wire would be the signal connection, the twisted green and braid wire is the ground connection and gets soldered to the back of a pot, and the red and white wire allows you to tap the pickup using an extra switch or a switched pot (to take the connection to ground), for a single coil sound. If you don't want to do this, then just wrap the bare end of the wire in some insulating tape or cover it with heat shrink. Don't cut it off, as the wires join the two pickup coils together and you won't get any sound.

Yellow wire: This is for grounding the bridge and strings. One of the holes for the bridge ferrules will have a hole drilled between it and the control cavity. Before you fit the ferrule into the body, you need to fit the wire into the hole, bare the very end of the wire, and the ferrule makes contact with the bare end when it's pressed into the body. The other end gets soldered to a ground connection on the back of a pot.

Angled metal bit: That's a bracket for the pickguard (if you wish to fit it). The long slot is used with a short bolt and nut to secure it to the hole in the pickguard, whilst the short part of the L is screwed into the side of the bass. Same as on this Les Paul...

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[junbaekong]

Much thanks to you both

Looking forward to soon color, wire and set up my bass


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[lfinn]

Hello junbaekong,

I just purchased an HBB-5 and was hoping that you might have a photograph of your wiring connections. I have a copy of the 2 humbucker, 4 pots, and 3 way switch wiring diagram but the prewiring from the factory appears different. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

lfinn

[WeirdBits]

Hi lfinn, can you please post some photos of the pre-wired components you’re unsure about, then we should be able to explain how they relate to the diagram. It’s still a relatively new kit and there can be some variation between batches from the factory, so it’s always better to see images so there’s no confusion with connections, wire colour variations etc.