This is my first post here so first of all I'd like to say hello! I am currently working on a guitar body I built..... It's basically a Joe Satriani with an RG neck (had to comensate a little so everything would work together....
Anyway what I'd like to know is how can I make a 2 conductor wire into a 3 or 4 wire..... I saw a thread a couple of posts down in this forum but didn't understand it because I know nothing about what color wires mean what; ground, signal, etc....
The way the pickup is set up is each coil has one black, each soldered to each other,,,,, Each coil has two white wires, one white is soldered to the plate and the other white wire goes out along with a bare wire (from the plate into the control cavity (plastic shielded together). How do I split this up into 3 or 4 wires. BTW this is an Ibanez neck pickup out of an RG220..... It's a PSND1 or 2, can't remember which is which..
Lastly, I checked out the Ibanez JS 100 and 1000 wiring diagrams and both guitars use a 331pF capacitor on the volume but I can not find one at guitar center or Radio Shack !?! They even let me open the back of a JS1000 to see what was in there and it said 331pf on it....... I end up just picking out the capacitors that looked to be about the same size since the other two types they had were huge. They say "104" on them whatever that means. What the heck do i need? Anyone know?
Oh yeah, one more thing. Is there any difference between using copper wire to wire up a guitar; I noticed all the wiring in guitars seem to have silver colored wire!?!
Sorry to ask so many questions right off the bat.... I just didn't want to start post whoring all over the place.... Thanks for any help you can give me...
Fred
P.S. Here is the JS100 wiring diagram which is how I'm trying to wire it up....
http://www.ibanez.com/wiring/wire.asp?y=2004&w=JS100
