My First Hollow Body kit GR-1SF

[BrianDee]

This time I'm trying a lot of firsts. (differences from my JB bass kit).

1. Hollow Body.
2. Rosewood neck (oiled instead of varnished)
3. Binding scraping (top, bottom & f holes and edges of fingerboard)
4. Trying a solid colour pearl paint on top instead of stain.
5. Stained sides & neck.
6. Solid black headstock face.
7. Glue in neck.

So a lot of new challenges/things to learn (and go wrong).

I will start posting some pics when I get more time but I have a question re the stock Pickups.


The 2 pickups that came with the kit have different height plastic surrounds. 1 is quite thin (sits low to the body) and the other is taller (sits about 6-8 mill higher). They also have different colour wire.

Can someone tell me which is the Neck and which is the Bridge pickup. I have tried both of them in both positions and in all configurations one sits much lower than the other. i.e. further from the strings. I'm not sure if this is normal/by design or not.

Any help appreciated as I am getting close to wanting to wire the loom up.

[FrankenWashie]

Based on experience i'd say the taller PUP ring is the Bridge Position and the shorter is the Neck.
Final Pickup position is going to depend largely on your action. You set your preferred action then adjust the pickups in their rings to suit the action and your preferred playing style.

[BrianDee]

Thanks FrankenWashie,

Do you know if the colour of the wires are meaningful?
I haven't checked the resistance/impedance yet.

[FrankenWashie]

From other kits I’ve built, and this is by no means definitive, red = bridge HB, Yellow=neck usually. From time to time weird oddities pop up.
This also does not hold true for Single coils, in my experience.

so that’s what I go by, but if you have Green and blue we’ll then all bets are off!