I just got my new pickups in (a Seth Lover Bridge and '59 N) and am all ready to wire them up and stuff . . . I just have a couple of questions. Umm, the four conductor with the '59 totally makes sense to me, I have the diagram and everything, but the Seth Lover has like one single wire with a shiny metal looking casing . . . From what I understand, the casing is the ground and the wire in the middle is the live connection. Here's my question before I go and do this all wrong:
Since I have a semi-hollow body guitar and there's no cavity on the back, I was going to just snip out the old pickups and use the leads from them to solder everything onto. Will I run into problems if I solder the outer casing part of the Seth Lover's wiring to the ground from the old leads? Should I just take out all of the pots and fish everything through the f-holes? (Normally this is what I would do, but it's such a ***** getting to all the components, and I'm worried about scraping the edges of the f-holes while I do it too. Just soldering to the old leads is much preferred)
PS - Thank you Thank you Thank you Lew! I really appreciate you going out of your way to make sure that I got exactly what I was looking for as far as pickups go. You are a god amoung men . . .
Since I have a semi-hollow body guitar and there's no cavity on the back, I was going to just snip out the old pickups and use the leads from them to solder everything onto. Will I run into problems if I solder the outer casing part of the Seth Lover's wiring to the ground from the old leads? Should I just take out all of the pots and fish everything through the f-holes? (Normally this is what I would do, but it's such a ***** getting to all the components, and I'm worried about scraping the edges of the f-holes while I do it too. Just soldering to the old leads is much preferred)
PS - Thank you Thank you Thank you Lew! I really appreciate you going out of your way to make sure that I got exactly what I was looking for as far as pickups go. You are a god amoung men . . .
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