single conductor humbucker wiring question.

[dmraco]

Calling line6man...

I have a question.  I am wiring a two humbucker, one vol and one tone with a three way toggle.  The pickup wires are single conductor where the hot wire is surrounded by the ground.

This makes it difficult to run the wires to the three way as 99% of wiring diagrams tell you.  I know you can run the pickup wires directly to the knobs and well as the toggle wires.  I just cannot find a diagram for this.

Can someone help?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Not sure if this answers your question, but on pickups like that, I strip a few inches off of another wire and wrap it around the shielded portion.  Then, I heat shrink the wire and most of the rest of the shielded portion just to keep it from making incidental contact with anything that shouldn't be grounded.  It effectively makes a ground lead.  Your leads should be long enough to go anywhere.

 

[dmraco]

That I what I am thinking.

 

[line6man]

As I understand, your issue is that the grounds need to go to somewhere inches away from the hots? If you are using a Gibson style toggle, there is a chassis ground that you can solder to, and then extend to another ground point with a short length of wire to ensure that the ground connection is soldered and not simply a mechanical connection through the shielding under the switch. If you are using a mini toggle switch, you can mount a lug between the depth-adjust nut and the body/pickguard, in which to run the two pickup grounds and wire to the other ground point elsewhere in the control cavity. If you are using a blade switch with no place to solder the grounds, you can simply solder a piece of wire onto the two shield braids from the pickups, and then run that out to whatever ground point you want to connect to.