Wiring.

It's a moot point now since he does have separate neck & bridge pickups, but my stating "However it doesn't really matter." was based on the fact that vintage guitars did not have differently wound pickups and the compensation came from how each pickup was adjusted in relation to the strings.

It was good to point out the difference in the markings and their respective positions though!

Had Grandpa been unfortunate enough to have received two neck pickups, they still could have worked. There are still guitars made today that have identical pickups for both positions. I'm pretty sure that there is at least no difference in pole spacing on the kit pickups.

My PBG PRS1-TS build has 2 Wilkinson mini-humbuckers in it that are identical (within a a few ohms) and it works just fine and sounds great.

As these have N and B markings, there will be a difference in the number of windings.

Hello again, one thing still puzzles me, pic attached . Red /yellow/ black , ground wires soldered together, with 3 short white ( hot???) wires. what happens here.

Cheers

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Hello again, one thing still puzzles me, pic attached . Red /yellow/ black , ground wires soldered together, with 3 short white ( hot???) wires. what happens here.

Cheers

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Attachment 40938 still a bit puzzled about this wiring, red ,white and black wires with their earth wires soldered together leaving the 3 short white wires .

what happens here.

Cheers

Jim

Hi Longprong7,
Hopefully this is all correct.
These go to the switch. The switch has 4 lugs to connect wires - 3 close together and a separate ground. The "earth" goes to the ground lug of the switch. The white wires are the input and output "hot" wires for the switch. The yellow cable's white wire is the bridge circuit "hot" and goes to one of the outside lugs, the red cable's white wire is the neck hot and goes to the other outside lug. The black cable's white wire is the output of the switch and goes to the middle lug . The other end of the black's white wire and ground must go to the jack socket.
I hope this helps.

Almost there, I thought I had already posted this ,think I put it in the wrong place. I am still a little confused about the 3 wires, red,black and yellow with their earth wires already soldered together and a the junction i'm left with 3 very short white wires. Can someone point me right with this. Pic attachedAttachment 40950

Hi Longprong7,
I answered this above.

These go to the switch. The switch has 4 lugs to connect wires - 3 close together and a separate ground. The "earth" goes to the ground lug of the switch. The white wires are the input and output "hot" wires for the switch. The yellow cable's white wire is the bridge circuit "hot" and goes to one of the outside lugs, the red cable's white wire is the neck hot and goes to the other outside lug. The black cable's white wire is the output of the switch and goes to the middle lug . The other end of the black's white wire and ground must go to the jack socket.

Sorry guys, still not quite there. This short black single wire pre soldered to the Neck volume pot. Pic attached. where does it go to.

Thanks

JimAttachment 40964

Hi,
I think that should be the bridge ground wire. The free end should be stripped and splayed a bit. It should be connected to the bridge post when they are put on to the body. Not sure about the AES-1, but there should be a small drilled hole inside the post hole so that the spayed wire can make contact with the post.

Hopefully some one else will add more.