Yup, all the earthing is correct; I even went as far as to sand the base of the bridge to get bare metal, and put a piece of copper tape under the wire to ensure maximum contact.
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Yup, all the earthing is correct; I even went as far as to sand the base of the bridge to get bare metal, and put a piece of copper tape under the wire to ensure maximum contact.
Strange. The EX5 pickups are normally on the weak side, but not known for being that noisy. How have you wired them up? Pics of the control cavity?
Often a lot of noise occurs if you've mistakenly soldered the signal and ground wires to the wrong tabs on the output jack. It's easily done. Worth a quick check. Otherwise there could be a poor ground connection somewhere.
I'll post pics later, but I definitely checked and double-checked the tabs on the output jack; even going as far as resoldering the other way around, to no avail.
Given that I'll be dismantling it all in a few days anyway, I won't worry too much about troubleshooting just yet. Plus, it's a convenient excuse to try making that fancy pickup design. :D
The pickups are humbuckers (are they 2 or 4 conductor wiring? I think they are now 4), so it really doesn't sound right that they are noisy.
They're 4-conductor wiring (plus shield), with two pairs (red/white, green/shield) pre-soldered, and a black lead left on its own. I've treated this as ground rather than hot, since that follows every other electrical convention I've ever seen. It certainly made everything more confusing though, since it's not mentioned in the wiring diagram.
My wiring is a mess since I knew it was only going to be temporary, so I added extra length to each wire. I also added an extra ground wire to connect the shields of the pickup cavities.
https://i.imgur.com/ULyMCRe.jpg
Anyway. I'm not going to spend too much time on this just now, since my jeweller's saw arrived today! I've got inlays to cut! :D
Ummmm.
Yeah hard to tell with all the extensions, but just looking at that pic it appears you have two earth wires going to the jack?
Difficult to tell as its hard to see what lug each wire terminates on.
EDIT: On the last pot before the jack is the blue wire that goes to the jack attached to the centre or top lug?
Black = hot, red/white = series link between coils, green/bare = ground/shield.
Yes, forget electrical convention when it comes to pickup wiring colours, they could be anything. A fair bit of difference between pickup manufacturers.
Hopefully once you've rewired to Wierdy's colours, you should have it running in a (hopefully) noiseless, full humbucker mode.
Wow, that's nuts. I'll keep that in mind for when I rewire it.
Should the red/white twist be treated as a hot as well?
In the meantime, I got to work on the body inlay:
https://i.imgur.com/S4ksKHR.jpg
Seven blades and one drill bit later:
https://i.imgur.com/Hwj0aRm.jpg
And here's the cut to prepare for hand routing:
https://i.imgur.com/qzLqhS3.jpg
I forgot to take photos, but I cocked up while chiselling out the cavity, leaving a sizeable gouge off to one side of the tail. I've patched it up with superglue and shavings (and lots of sanding & staining), but it's pretty obvious. I'll post pictures once the stain has cured.
Red/white wires are bridging the two coils, so yes, they are carrying signal. Either just tape the end up if using the pickup only as a humbucker, or they can be used with a switched pot or mini-toggle switch to coil tap the pickup for single-coil sounds. You can also unconnect them and wire the coils in parallel rather than serial. Or again make this a switchable selection.