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Post subject: Grounding / Wiring pickups - Requesting advice
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:10 am
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I've purchased a set of fender p-bass pickups to drop into a BC Rich that I got dirt cheap because the pickups were junk. Question - the ground wire on the BC Rich pickups comes right off of the tone pot. The ground wire on the Fender pickups is coming off of the output jack. Is there any noticeable advantage of doing it one way over the other way?

Also - The BC Rich has the pickup wires running through the body to get to the pots. The P-bass pickups that I purchased are already prewired with pots and jack connected to them. I'm going to have to take the pickup wires off of the pots so I can run them through the body. This may sound like a dumb question to those of you who know what you are doing, but should I break the solder at the pots, run the wires through the body, and then resolder, or is it ok to cut the pickup wires and then splice them back together?

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:20 am
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I would have to see the way they are wired, but normally the jack ground is soldered to the back of one of the pots with a ground wire going from the pots to the bridge.

Unsolder the wires at the pots, run the wires through the body, then re-solder them to the pots.

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