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I wired my new humbuggies in last night however I have a problem, the neck HB isn't working. I wired both exactly how my old HB's were wired. bridge to the 3 way switch with the metal outer of the pickup wires soldered to an extra lug on the switch (the old HB was soldered this way - this pup works) and neck to the on/off switch for the rhythm circuit and the metal outer wire to a little metal thing that some other wires were attached to. Can anyone point out what i've done wrong? I assume the outer part of the pickup wire needs to be soldered to something to ground them, is this absolutely neccesary?

Yeah, you need to ground everything. Did you test the pickup before with a multimeter? The only other thing i can think of is if you've caught something putting it back together or the metal outer sleeve is touching a point it should'nt be and cutting the signal out.
A common complaint with small control cavities is something grounding out by touching the RF shielding paint.

I figured that may be the problem. I'll open it up and check my wiring to make sure nothing is touching anything it shouldn't.

Took it apart and resoldered the neck pickup (and turned it around as I realised i'd fitted it the wrong way round) and everything is working. I guess i'm not as electronically inept as I thought. Thanks for the help Fran.