One for the wiring gurus

[Hardcoretroubadour]

Cheers guys, I'll have a look in a few days when I finish laying the turf in the yard

[wazkelly]

Cheers guys, I'll have a look in a few days when I finish laying the turf in the yard

Hey buddy, should be same as your Bass if you did a split setup on it.

I would start with running multi meter across all wires on the bridge HB to see which ones give a reading in relation to each other to identify any faults or broken connections within the pickup.

Part of the problem could be the instructions that may or may not have come with pickups as from one brand to another the wires can often be different colours which adds to the confusion. For a standard HB pickup they usually arrive with a pair joined (red & white is quite common) with a black and green (plus shield) flying solo or shield and ground also paired off. The multi meter should help with identifying which wires belong to which coils and then you can figure out which ones go where on the push/pull switch. This is where it can also get tricky as some switch diagrams show a few different ways to go, either split or possibly parallel. Been a while since I last did this so memory is a bit faded but it could be there somewhere in my EX1 build diary however I was installing Toneriders but that shouldn't matter. It was a similar scenario when doing Entwistle HB splits in my son's Strat, just different coloured wires.

Not my favourite part of a build either but best attacked with a clear head and many spare hours with minimal external distractions.

Hope this helps in some way.

Cheers, Waz