Wiring help please?

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:02 pm

I've bought some new GFS pickups for my archtop but I need help working out which wire goes where. The pickup I took off had only 2 wires, a red one going to the first leg of a pot (could be either pot since my knobs don't have volume or tone written on them) and a solder covered one going to the base of the same pot. The pickup I have bought has 5 wires: A black ground, a solder covered ground, a green positive and a red and white (the instructions say don't connect these two wires if you have humbuckers???)

Thanks for your assistance xx

Post by **Hurb** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:07 pm

connect white and red together and tape off?

Post by **Hurb** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:08 pm

then slap yourself for having humbukorz!

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 3:30 pm

It's alright, they are rickenbacker replicas! So I connect the red and white? what about the other 3?

Post by **Hurb** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:02 pm

green to postive. black to ground(pot), and silver to any metal around the pickup...if there is none then to ground(pot)

thats just a guess though..wait till someone with that pickup chirps in. I dunt fuk wit humybucks

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:15 pm

Well I did what you said and It works great, I'm just really struggling to get the wiring back in properly. I'm getting quite pissed off...

Thanks for the help buddy

Post by **Hurb** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:37 pm

TheBurbz wrote:Well I did what you said and It works great, I'm just really struggling to get the wiring back in properly. I'm getting quite pissed off...

Thanks for the help buddy

well I am awesome!

glad it worked. good luck making it fit.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:39 pm

Always photodocument and draw the before stage so that you can remember how to stuff it back in. THis is true elsewhere in life as well. I think the old Duo-sonic was a tough one. I have had a few I had to start over and tape down, etc.

TheBurbz · Post by **TheBurbz** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:35 am

It was pretty easy once I had formulated a plan, I wrote on the pots in permanent marker where they went. I just used the old string trick, wrapped it around the thinnest part of the pots like a lasso so when I pulled the string it tightened and when I let go it came off. Once I had done that it was really easy.
The pickups sounds really great compared to the stock ones, I was surprised that, even though they are supposed to be Rickenbacker- type pickups, they work really well under heavy distortion, they are so smooth!

They also look lovely:

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:11 pm

noice. I just ordered some GFS goodies for my old Epi SG.