Wiring problems

deebee

Hi all - Help needed with wiring 2 pups. Single coil and a lipstick tube. I've just finished wiring a guitar - home made - and on the clean pup on the neck, i get volume and tone. when i switch to the bridge, bridge/neck, there is a beeeg loss of volume, and the sound stays the same in the 2 positions. I've triple checked the wiring, all is sound and solid, this is also a combo/diagram i've used on a few other geetars with 3 way toggle switches, and no probs. I've encountered faulty pots and a faulty jack plug in the past - soooooooooo - i'm thinking that the switch could be the prob. Everything is well shielded, so, there is no hum or noise at all. The tube pup has a live wire, red - and an earth and black wire soldered together, i've seen this before, buuuut - i'm beginning to wonder about this. Anybody with any suggestions, other than turn it into braai wood.

V8

I be faaaarrr from a expert, maybe a dodgy switch - I'd guess out of phase pups?

But I'd try this :

Pickups both work? A resistance test is good, wiring up each pup to the output jack and testing is better.

Switch works? Continuity test when trying pos 2 & 3.

Pickups in phase? Read this - http://www.neighborhost.com/scrapbook/pickup-id.html - and have fun figuring out which wires go where, when matching up the pups. I always run through Artie's little process when I get a pup - much less hassle than re-soldering :?

deebee

Thankx V8, i've now got something to work on, i'll first need to get a meter tho', something that i don't have - yet

V8

deebee wrote: i'll first need to get a meter tho', something that i don't have - yet

Arrggghh....get one, something cheap n nasty. Anything that can test continuity, it's what I use a meter for usually.