curtisa Posted December 15, 2020 Report Share Posted December 15, 2020 It might be easier if you draw up a diagram of how you have wired it all together and post that here. I can't see enough detail in your photos to determine how everything fits together. Probably worth noting that unless you know that your pickups are equivalent to Bareknuckles, there's no guarantee that the wiring colours have the same meaning between different manufacturers. Just because the Bareknuckle wiring diagram shows black/bare and green/white joined together doesn't mean that the same wiring pairs apply to your pickup. Wiring colours are not standardised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ivy Posted December 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 @curtisa thank you. I tried to re wire it after watching a video on parallel and series wiring. What is confusing is not only the colour but the 5 way switch the diagram shows 8 lugs when there is only 7 lugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ivy Posted December 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 @curtisa the pickups I am using are sound foundry single coil pickups and the wires are white ,red and bare.  The dual rail single humbucker is sound foundry and the wires are black and white, green and  bare, and red. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted December 16, 2020 Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 I can't find any mention of Sound Foundry pickups when I do a Google search. Got a link? Do you recall if the humbucker came with some of the wires pre-joined when you received it? Â 3 hours ago, David Ivy said: 5 way switch the diagram shows 8 lugs when there is only 7 lugs. I would've expected your 5-way switch to have all 8 lugs. There even looks like a gap on the switch where one of the lugs appears to be missing in your photos. Any possibility one lug has broken off by accident? This diagram shows how to translate between the switch shown on your Bareknuckle wiring diagram, and the switch you have: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ivy Posted December 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 @curtisai bought them all from C.B.Gitty.com.                  guitar crafters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curtisa Posted December 16, 2020 Report Share Posted December 16, 2020 From the CBGitty website the wiring description for the mini humbucker reads: Quote To wire these, treat the green/bare wire as the ground, the red wire as the positive, and leave the white and black wires joined together (but not connected to either hot or ground). So the wiring colours are not the same as Bareknuckle and some translation will be required in order to make it work equivalently: Bareknuckle red -> CBGitty red Bareknuckle green+white -> CBGitty black+white Bareknuckle bare+black -> CBGitty bare+green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ivy Posted December 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 @curtisa Thank you so much this will help me figure out the wiring from the diagram. I found a diagram that has a single sized humbucker and 2 single coils with 1 volume & 1 tone. Thanks again much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJHAMMERSTEIN Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 On 11/17/2020 at 11:04 AM, David Ivy said: @ScottR@Bizman62Â thank you for the helpful tips I will have to try those on the next neck that I build. I am also putting together a tele from parts but i made the body out of one piece of poplar. Then I used Rit dye and dyed it black sanded that back til it was just in the grain then dyed it royal blue over that. I think it looks nice. Which color of rit dye did you use? Liquid or powder? I really like this! What did you use (if any) to finish over it? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodfab Posted October 29, 2022 Report Share Posted October 29, 2022 Very nice. I'm impressed when I see people make something nice without all the fancy tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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