50s style wiring confusion

cobb

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I recently purchased a set of retrospect'd antiquity pickups. I was planning on just using the bridge pickup, one master volume, and an output jack. However, I can't find any wiring diagrams for this specific setup online? There are plenty of diagrams for 4 conductor pick-ups, but the retrospect'd set has the 50s style.
Is it even possible to wire up a single pickup like that using 50s style wiring?
 
50’s style refers to the way the tone control is connected. If you have no tone it’s neither modern nor 50’s.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you are calling “50’s Wiring”. You mean with the braided shield single conductor instead of the 4 conductor? If so, the center conductor is the “Black” and the braided shield is the “Green/Bare”. You ignore the Red/White.
 
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50’s style refers to the way the tone control is connected. If you have no tone it’s neither modern nor 50’s.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you are calling “50’s Wiring”. You mean with the braided shield single conductor instead of the 4 conductor? If so, the center conductor is the “Black” and the braided shield is the “Green/Bare”. You ignore the Red/White.

Yep that's it! Braided single conductor. Sorry for the confusion I'm still very very new to pickups in general. Thanks for the reply though that cleared it up!
 
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