Post by greybagz on Apr 27, 2007 2:30:11 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
A few questions. I've just recently acquired an early Charvel (by Jackson). The previous owner I presume has, (by what it looks like) gone to town with the soldering iron and attempted to modify its wiring. I've begun to clean it up as it is a little noisy and I hate messy wiring.
It has a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the neck (very hot), a Jackson J-100 single coil in the middle and an early Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in the bridge (2 wire, but now 4 wire, as it has been tapped by someone, seems to be intact and working OK). And a 5 way selector switch.
Now my questions are,
1) The J-100 single coil has a black and a white wire, general practice tells me that the black is usually ground, but in this guitar the black wire has been connected to selector switch and white to ground, is this right?
2) The Hot Rails pickup has a 4 wire shielded conductor, now the shielding of this cable is poking out of cable at pickup end, but soldered to back of pot at other (general practice again, one end of shield connected to ground, thus not causing a ground loop, right?)
The worry is, I've not seen a shield hanging out at pickup end before (usually cut away). Is this OK to cut away? Or does it belong somewhere.
3) And finally, the Pearly Gates which has been aftermarketly tapped (is that a word? aftermarketly?
) has had its 4 wires shielded by what looks like a homemade shield (looks similar to the insulation and copper braid inside game controller leads, just without the controller conductors. I've had to repair my PS2 controller a couple of times, temper temper. 
)
Anyhow, it too is only grounded at back of the pot, is this OK?
I know it would probably be better to purchase some 4 conductor shielded guitar wire. But it is ever so hard to get it here in Oz.
Thanks for reading.
Look forward to your replies.
I'll ask about pickup configuration suggestions later.
A few questions. I've just recently acquired an early Charvel (by Jackson). The previous owner I presume has, (by what it looks like) gone to town with the soldering iron and attempted to modify its wiring. I've begun to clean it up as it is a little noisy and I hate messy wiring.
It has a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the neck (very hot), a Jackson J-100 single coil in the middle and an early Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in the bridge (2 wire, but now 4 wire, as it has been tapped by someone, seems to be intact and working OK). And a 5 way selector switch.
Now my questions are,
1) The J-100 single coil has a black and a white wire, general practice tells me that the black is usually ground, but in this guitar the black wire has been connected to selector switch and white to ground, is this right?
2) The Hot Rails pickup has a 4 wire shielded conductor, now the shielding of this cable is poking out of cable at pickup end, but soldered to back of pot at other (general practice again, one end of shield connected to ground, thus not causing a ground loop, right?)
The worry is, I've not seen a shield hanging out at pickup end before (usually cut away). Is this OK to cut away? Or does it belong somewhere.
3) And finally, the Pearly Gates which has been aftermarketly tapped (is that a word? aftermarketly?
) has had its 4 wires shielded by what looks like a homemade shield (looks similar to the insulation and copper braid inside game controller leads, just without the controller conductors. I've had to repair my PS2 controller a couple of times, temper temper. 
) Anyhow, it too is only grounded at back of the pot, is this OK?
I know it would probably be better to purchase some 4 conductor shielded guitar wire. But it is ever so hard to get it here in Oz.
Thanks for reading.
Look forward to your replies.
I'll ask about pickup configuration suggestions later.
