A Little Help with Schematics and Soldering

[hamburder]

I'm setting myself up for soldering and I'm realizing I am doing something that isn't easy to find an answer for in tutorials. This is my first time doing electronics and soldering, so I'm a little confused and overwhelmed.

I've got a neck humbucker with 4 wires: red, black, white and braided. I've got a P90 bridge pickup with black, white and blue wires. I've got 3 ft of black/white wires. A three-way switch, a mono input jack, a tone and volume knob for each pickup, a cap for each tone knob and a treble bleed for each pickup circuit to experiment with.

Attached is a picture of the pots and wires for verifcation.

Curious where I can find the right schematics for this?

 

[supertruper1988]

What you are trying to wire is a les paul schematic so any of those will do.

Here is one from Seymour Duncan:

2H_3G_2V_2T.pdf

There are 3 parts to any wiring and they are modular.

• Pickups
• Switch(es)
• Pots

First you have the pickups, the manufacture will typically publish a guide on which colors do which so for regular humbucker, there will be one thats the "hot" then two soldered together and a bit of shrink wrap on them and then a "ground" which will be soldered together with the bare shield wire to the back of a pot or other ground source. The P90 with 3 wires will likely be "hot", "ground", and "shield"

Then you have the pots, you have a volume and tone for each pickup so you will wire those up and the middle lug of each volume will go to one leg of the switch.

from the switch you will go to the jack.

The colors of the wires for everything outside of the pickups does not matter as long as you are consistent. So 1 color for "hot" and one color for "ground"

 

[hamburder]

Excellent, thank you for that.