Coil cut your Pit Bull pickups.

[stan]

wow, that was great DB, thanks

[KurtSlash123]

Okay so I've come along and opened up the right hand coil revealing no red wores but a black and white one the White one has a thin line of copper from the pickup, but the black had copper on it too but wasn't connected, I thought o may have snapped it accidentally? Help please? Haha

[wokkaboy]

Kurt please post a photo. The wire colours vary between what DB originally posted. One wire could be an earth wire

[KurtSlash123]

there you g woks, sorry about that

[wokkaboy]

Hi Kurt, I haven't attempted this so be best to wait for guru Weirdy to chime in.
My guess is the loose black wire was an earth wire to the casing you removed (assuming these pups had a casing/cover?)

[KurtSlash123]

it had a chrome casing on it yes! good guess! we should wait to wierdy to be 100% sure :P

[wokkaboy]

yes Kurt in the meantime have another read of DB's instructions, if you can work out and match the wires to your different wire colours it may be more obvious. I'm pretty sure the loose wire would have been earthed to the casing and came loose when you removed the casing
If you have no joy you can get a pair of Entwistle dark star pups from the PBG shop for $66

[KurtSlash123]

So I opened up the other pickup and still only a black on white wire, although this time, both black and white were connected to the thin coil wire, very confused, doing my head in, 😁

[wokkaboy]

just hold off before you go any further Kurt. Usually wiring guru chimes in in the arvo

[WeirdBits]

It looks like you have snapped a coil wire. That black wire (red in DB's guide) is the 'series link' wire connecting the fragile copper 'end' wires of each coil together. If one of the black wire connections has broken free... that's bad. Fortunately, the black wire should be linking the 'end' wires of the coils, meaning you should be able to unwind a bit more from the coil to reconnect it, if needed (Note: The white and bare wires connect to the 'start' of the coils, so if you break one of those connections you can't unwind more coil wire to reconnect them). If you can't reconnect the broken coil wire then the pickup is junked.

If you look at the numbered Bridge & Neck diagram in this post it should explain how the wires are connected (focus on the Bridge only in the diagram and ignore the Neck with the cut wires, as you only cut the wires if you're going to do the 4-wire mod). You shouldn't need to remove the tape around the individual coils, just make sure the black wire is accessible.

Be very careful handling the wires and connections as the thin copper coil wire is very fragile and extremely easy to break. Ideally, for coil splitting you just want to strip a bit of the coating off the black series link wire and solder the extra wire to it while moving it and the other wires/connections as little as possible. It's very easy to ruin a pickup by breaking a coil wire.