Dodgy Pickup??!!?

stephenshields2

Well lads hows things?

I'm having pickup trouble.

I took a set of SD SH-4's out of a Jackson KV-2. Now, they are in a different guitar, with 3 humbuckers.

So there is a SH-4 at the bridge, a generic humbucker in the middle (who cares about the middle? :rolleyes:), and a TB-4 at the neck.

Neck and middle pickup work a treat but the bridge pickup is constantly giving me hassle. Sometimes it will only be giving 1/2 output, sometimes less, sometimes none at all.

I thought i might have done a botched soldering job, so i removed it again and soldered it in again. Nothing has changed and I'm stumped!

Any ideas??

damonjewel

which coloured wires are soldered where? also are you using a 5 way or a 3 way selector?

stephenshields2

damonjewel wrote: »

which coloured wires are soldered where? also are you using a 5 way or a 3 way selector?

The soldering is correct, its the exact same as the neck pickup.

And its a 3 way selector, one for each pickup (which sucks)

damonjewel

stephenshields2 wrote: »

The soldering is correct, its the exact same as the neck pickup.

And its a 3 way selector, one for each pickup (which sucks)

Well the hot wire from pickup to pickup changes, but from what I can see the hot wire for the sd-h at the bridge is black to the vol pot with the bare and green soldered to ground and the red and white are shorted

that correct?

damonjewel

see the following diagram as to how i see it

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/products/electric/humbuckers/501005-110.pdf

however thinking on that you have only a 3 way switch then possibly the "peter frampton" wiriing is could work. the idea is that the middle is always on, Im trying to find the digram.

stephenshields2

damonjewel wrote: »

Well the hot wire from pickup to pickup changes, but from what I can see the hot wire for the sd-h at the bridge is black to the vol pot with the bare and green soldered to ground and the red and white are shorted

that correct?

Yeah man thats the exact way I have it done!

I've changed a fair few pickups, its not my wiring thats causing it, I'm looking for other possible causes to the problem...

With not much luck! :rolleyes:

eagle10

Get the meter out and check the switch and check the resistance across each coil individually then together.

Sounds like it might be a dodgy switch

balducci

Have you tried swapping around 2 of the pickups (dodgy sounding one being one of them) on the selector switch? If the problem follows the pickup, it's the pickup but if the problem moves to the other pickup, it's the selector switch.