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Post subject: Dimarzio's in a Squire VII a little help please!
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:04 pm
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Okay, I am not willing to accept defeat.....and I am not to proud to ask for a little help so.....
I have a Squire VII and I have a Dimarzio Blaze in the neck and an Evo,
And I am having a little issue wiring his up.
It is a 1 vol 2 tone 3 way.....
I have no wiring diagram to go off 'cause Squier nor Fender has anything.
This isn't my first rodeo wiring up a guit, but I am having some problems.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!
(diagrams from the Dimarzio site weren't much help...)


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Post subject: Re: Dimarzio's in a Squire VII a little help please!
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:36 pm
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BastardN wrote:
Okay, I am not willing to accept defeat.....and I am not to proud to ask for a little help so.....
I have a Squire VII and I have a Dimarzio Blaze in the neck and an Evo,
And I am having a little issue wiring his up.
It is a 1 vol 2 tone 3 way.....
I have no wiring diagram to go off 'cause Squier nor Fender has anything.
This isn't my first rodeo wiring up a guit, but I am having some problems.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!!
(diagrams from the Dimarzio site weren't much help...)


What specifically are the problems? Or, do you essentially want to know from, "square one" how to wire it up? Either way, we got you covered!

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Post subject: Re: Dimarzio's in a Squire VII a little help please!
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:40 am
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What specifically are the problems? Or, do you essentially want to know from, "square one" how to wire it up? Either way, we got you covered![/quote]
THAnks!!!!!!!! If I didn't shave my head I may have pulled out some hair..Ok....for the Neck I have the blk and white capped off and wire shrink wrapped (I'm anal about this when I solder...lol)
the red in the 7th position on the switch, (bridged to the 6th)

Bridge is blk and wht capped and wire shrinked and the red to the 3d bridged to the 2nd position

Then it has me slodering the greens and white (to ground), back of the pot.
How far off am I ?
If you think I should start over it might be cleaner...


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Post subject: Re: Dimarzio's in a Squire VII a little help please!
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:53 am
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BastardN wrote:
...for the Neck I have the blk and white capped off and wire shrink wrapped...the red in the 7th position on the switch, (bridged to the 6th)

Bridge is blk and wht capped and wire shrinked and the red to the 3d bridged to the 2nd

Then it has me slodering the greens and white (to ground), back of the pot.

If you think I should start over it might be cleaner...



I presume you are using a 3 way Fender type pickup selector switch. If so, are there two sides of terminals to the switch or just one big long terminal strip?

In other words, does it look like this:

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Or like this:

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You indicate above that you have a white wire soldered to ground. With DiMarzios, the black and white wires should be soldered together and insulated. The red wire is the hot, the green and bare wires are to be grounded.

Let's resolve the above first before we get into wiring the pickup selector switch and the pots.

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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:14 am
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It is a one sided 3/way , I meant to say bare wire, not white soldered to the pot for ground.....oops sorry it's early...
the blk and wht's are shrunk insulated.
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 6:03 am
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BastardN wrote:
It is a one sided 3/way , I meant to say bare wire, not white soldered to the pot for ground.....oops sorry it's early...
the blk and wht's are shrunk insulated.
:?


You have the pickups' wiring configured correctly then so we can move on.

There are 4 variations of the pickup selector switch you've described. Based on my experience, I am choosing the one most likely to be the one you have. As you are looking at the bottom of the switch, let us assign numbers to the terminals:

#1. [ ]
#2. [ ]
#3. [ ]
#4. [ ]
#5. [ ]
#6. [ ]
#7. [ ]
#8. [ ]

Solder a wire from terminal #1 to terminal #2 and this same wire to terminal #7 and terminal #8. Leave additional length because this wire continues to the "in" terminal on your volume pot which is to be soldered there.

Terminal #3 is unused.

Solder the neck pickup's red wire and the hot wire from it's tone pot to terminal #4.

Solder the bridge pickup's red wire and the hot wire from it's tone pot to terminal #5.

Terminal #6 is unused.

That's it for the pickups and selector switch. If you need help with the pots and the jack, just yell.

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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:56 pm
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errr... I tried that but I think I will have to redo it....wow I feel really dumb....Fender pups are alot easier to install. Atomic II's Vintage Noiseless...etc


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I plugged it in and got hum,,,,,I may just redo the entire thing ....
maybe replace three way with a 5.


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BastardN wrote:
I plugged it in and got hum,,,,,I may just redo the entire thing ....
maybe replace three way with a 5.


The 5 way serves no purpose unless you plan on coil-tapping the pickups in which case, the wiring is different than what you are trying to accomplish now. Recheck your work and check that you didn't burn out any of the components with excessive heat from soldering.

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