Help! Wiring fourwire hums into doublewire setup

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:53 pm

So, quickly:

I have two four-wire pickups that I want to wire into an existing two-wire setup. The two humbuckers I'm taking out are Squier hums with just a white plastic wire and the ground. The pickups I want to install are GFS, and have five wires in total; the two coil-tap bits which are already taped together, then a black and a green wire and then the bare ground again. So... I don't want to have to desolder every connection to wire this bitch up. I could do that (if my brother hadn't stolen my solder...) but all I want to do is twist the relevant wires together, tape them up, then rock; we're really only testing them, then I'll do a full re-wire later on (or, y'know, when it breaks).

So what the tits do I do? Just twist the two main wires together, tape them to the single white wire left on the wiring harness, twist the grounds together and then try that?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:37 pm

Solved it. Black wire and braided earth wrapped together and just the green and white wires attached. Works wonderfully.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:14 pm

My approach that I've followed on I think pretty much every mod I've done to a guitar:

1. Solder bits to other bits
2. Put guitar back together
3. Disappointment
4. Take apart again and unsolder some bits, making sure to resolder again to other bits.
5. Put guitar back together again
6. Disappointment again
7. Take apart again and unsolder some bits again, making sure to resolder again to other bits again.
8. Put guitar back together again
9. Disappointment again again
10.Go upstairs and fetch an unimproved guitar
11.Rock out