Jimmy Page wiring help

[carsandguitars]

I just installed a jimmy page les paul wiring kit for a friend of mine that he bought from guitarelectronics. Install went fine. I know how to read wiring diagrams and schematics, and am decent at soldering. After getting it all hooked up and installed, I have one thing not working. everything in the neck circuit works fine (parallel, split, vol and tone). however, in the bridge circuit, I get very low output (i thought i was getting nothing until turning the amp up) in the normal humbucker setting. when i split the bridge pickup, it works fine on both north and south (push/pull phase pot). I've retraced my wiring several times and everything seems to be wired up correct. it also works fine in series if the bridge pickup is in coil split mode. any ideas where to start? I have also checked at the jack with a multimeter and both pickups are reading the correct impedence in all positions. here is my setup: fender esprit, seymore duncan jazz pickup(neck), seymore duncan jb(bridge), 2 volume (push/pull), 2 tone(push/pull), 3 way selector switch.

here is the link to the wiring diagram i used:
www.guitarelectronics.com/product/WDUHH3T2204

Thanks for any help

[D2o]

Hi c&g, and welcome to GN2!

The first thing that pops to mind is that you may have somehow mixed up some of the wire colors and caused the (thin sounding) pickup to be wired out of phase. Does that sound possible?

Cheers,
D2o

EDIT: in case it helps, click this link to (SD) pickup color codes

[wolf]

Hi carsandguitars,
Here is a diagram from my website:

It is the Jimmy Page wiring drawn specifically with Seymour Duncan wire color codes.

[carsandguitars]

Dec 16, 2009 13:31:20 GMT -5 wolf said:

Hi carsandguitars,
Here is a diagram from my website:

It is the Jimmy Page wiring drawn specifically with Seymour Duncan wire color codes.

in this diagram above, it shows the bridge pickup to have the north and south starts wired together and the finishes seperate which is the opposite of what the guitarelectronics diagram showed. could their diagram be wrong and thus my problem?

[D2o]

Dec 16, 2009 15:14:56 GMT -5 carsandguitars said:

in this diagram above, it shows the bridge pickup to have the north and south starts wired together and the finishes seperate which is the opposite of what the guitarelectronics diagram showed. could their diagram be wrong and thus my problem?

Hi c&g,

That is almost certainly what is causing the issue.

D2o

EDIT: It's not so much that their diagram is "wrong", it just doesn't jive with your pickup's color codes.

[wolf]

Hi carsandguitars,
Among other things, I (and others here at Guitar-Nuts 2) have learned that sometimes the wiring diagrams at Guitar Electronics can be wrong.
It also seems that Guitar Electronics has missed out on an important concept of the Jimmy Page wiring. When both pickups have the coil cut switches 'on' and the pickup switch is selecting both pickups, the single coils should be hum canceling. To do this, one of the pickups has to be wired in what I call an "inside-out" wiring. It still is in phase with itself and with the other pickup but will be humcanceling in coil cut mode. (In my diagram it is wired as such unlike that other diagram).

Perhaps this is more than what you wanted to know, but to see more about this, here is a page I wrote about coil-cut switching:
www.1728.com/guitar7.htm