Hi, sorry if this is long winded but as it's my 1st post I thought I'd get as much info into it as possible, all and any help highlty appreciated.
This in in relation to a non PTB guitar pickup upgrade I hope. I already had a couple of guitars before
i found this site and am looking to do some stuff to make them my own personal bit of kit. I'm thinking if I get these sorted I will look at getting the ES-1GL to keep the brain occupied.
I am left handed and a hopeless mid 60's learner who is not going to give up.
So instruments are a Yamaha Pacifica 112J and SX Tele
So far following info on this site I have reduced the girth and thickness of the SX neck and finished it with 4 coats of true oil and put in a bone nut. I'm pretty happy with how the neck turned and will probably look at pickups down the track but I don't think they sound bad, that's all down to my fingers.
So job in hand for the Pacifica (which is their only LH model) is a set of cheap FLEOR A5 pickups with coil split instead of stock Korean G&B ceramic and HB with no split
The pots and switch are alpha mini and I will leave them in. I am going with a mini off on off switch as per a youtube from guns and guitars which gives Nth single/ HB/ Sth single.
The main questions I have to start is testing hot wire with my multimeter on the original pickups (this is the 1st time I've opened the guitar up and looked inside) all 3 pickups have a single conduit with one white and a bare wire. So I assume white is hot (all white wires were going to the switch and all bare were joined and soldered to the back of the volume pot. My problem is I attach red from multimeter to white and blare bare wire then put a screw driver across the posts and I get a negative reading which goes positive when I pull away. Everything I've viewed I assumed it should go positive 1st. Red lead is plugged into VQmA and black into COM.
When I test the 4 wire FLEOR Humbucker with black on it's own, red & white joined together and green & bare joined together which looks to be same a Seymour Duncan on assumption. Test resistance and Black/White are one coil (Nth) & Red/ Green (Sth) so when I put the multimeter red lead on black wire and black lead on white wire I also get a negative reading. I would assume Black is hot especially as it was the only wire on its own.
So is this as it should be????
2nd question is on shielding I have done the pick guard and cavities and checked all over for continuity all seems good. Should I earth the cavity to say the spring claw or just leave as is with no earth attached?
Pete