Wiring a humbucker into a SSS Strat

[wokkaboy]

Hi Dan, have you got a ground wire going from the tremelo claw to a common earth point ? (looks like back of volume pot is your common earth point). If you have this and the humbucker is earthed correctly it should be fine. Some of those solder joins for the earth wires may need to be cleaned up and re-soldered. Don't bother looking at the PBG wiring links I don't think there is a diagram for what Andy suggested plus its a 5 way switch. Should have been a case of swapping out the bridge single pup and connecting wires for the humbucker to the same locations.

[LeftyDan1990]

Hi Dan, have you got a ground wire going from the tremelo claw to a common earth point ? (looks like back of volume pot is your common earth point). If you have this and the humbucker is earthed correctly it should be fine. Some of those solder joins for the earth wires may need to be cleaned up and re-soldered.

What I did was solder the humbucker ground to the same spot the others seemed to be soldered to. I'm aware my soldering is shite, I'm still very new to it and my iron is a bunnings job that is far to clunky for the job. I have a new one on the way that's a bit more like a pencil so it should be a LOT easier.

Is the tape covering a join from the original wiring for the bridge pup to the replacement SG400 humbucker lead? Is it a cut & join that's been soldered and then insulated?

That is actually my "test" wiring and no, it isn't soldered or insulated so that may be my main issue. I'm going to rip those original wires out and put the ones off the humbucker where they are meant to go.

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I've ordered a set of Tonerider Surfaris to put in place of the two stock squiers (apparently these surfaris are the same you find in classic vibe strats, of which I find to be really nice to play but... a bit pricey for me at the moment)... What I'm hoping to do is wire all these in at the same time. I don't want to pull any wiring out at this stage in case I forget what goes where.

This particular project was probably a bit complex to be my second pickup replacement attempt :P

EDIT: I also have a question. I was considering doing a bit of shielding with foil or copper tape around the inside of the body as well as the back of the pick guard. Do you think it would be a necessity or could I possibly get away with it? The Affinity strats don't actually come with any shielding on the pickguard at all and a lot of people do that as an aftermarket mod to them.