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Re: guitar wiring basic question

8/13/1999 12:18 AM
Joe Fuzz
Re: guitar wiring basic question
quote:
"I guess that since every pickup comes with two wires they can be just in-phase or out-phase."
 
 
 
 
Giacomo: Single coil pickups designed to be versatile like this will many times have a 3rd bare Ground wire. With only 2 wires coming out of the pickup, one of the wires (the black one) is usually fixed at Ground. If you want to pull one of the pickups out of phase, you'd have to "float" its ground wire. In other words, you'd have to swap hot and Gnd using a switch.  
 
 
 
You may want to take a look on the Seymour Duncan page at some of the schematics for Teles:  
 
 
 
http://www.seymourduncan.com/schematics.html  
 
 
 
This might give you some ideas.