50's style wiring with SD Pickups

[d_sic3]

Hi, I know this has been discussed a few times but I haven't found a diagram that shows you how to wire your Seymour Duncan pickups 50's style on a Les Paul. Most of the diagrams on the net has either 2 or 3 wires. The SD's have like 4 or 5 I think, so I'm confused on what to do with the other wires. I'm not an electronics guru so I depend on the diagram only.

Hope to get information from the people here. Thanks in advance.

 

[Luke Duke]

Re: 50's style wiring with SD Pickups

Hi, I know this has been discussed a few times but I haven't found a diagram that shows you how to wire your Seymour Duncan pickups 50's style on a Les Paul. Most of the diagrams on the net has either 2 or 3 wires. The SD's have like 4 or 5 I think, so I'm confused on what to do with the other wires. I'm not an electronics guru so I depend on the diagram only.

Hope to get information from the people here. Thanks in advance.

1.Solder the red and white together
2.Tape them off
3.Now solder the ground and green together
4. Treat the green/bare as "ground" and the black as "hot"


Hope that explains it for ya!

Luke

 

[AlexR]

Re: 50's style wiring with SD Pickups

SD's have 2 conductor as well - if you haven't ordered them yet you can get them in this configuration.

 

[d_sic3]

Re: 50's style wiring with SD Pickups

1.Solder the red and white together
2.Tape them off
3.Now solder the ground and green together
4. Treat the green/bare as "ground" and the black as "hot"


Hope that explains it for ya!

Luke

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

 

[d_sic3]

Re: 50's style wiring with SD Pickups

SD's have 2 conductor as well - if you haven't ordered them yet you can get them in this configuration.

Thanks sir. I already have the JB's..