Can anyone help me repair a disconnected coil on an Ibanez V1 Neck Humbucker?

[DieterPinklage]

I will post high resolution close up pictures through a magnifying glass later to help explain this, but I sure could use some help from the wizards on this forum.

I bought a used guitar recently and the neck pickup (Ibanez V1) appears to have a disconnected coil?

It has RED, WHITE, and BARE wire coming out as the main leads. When I ohm out red and white together it's like 5.5k but when i try to ohm from ground to white or ground to red the meter jumps around or does a "countdown to zero" and does not hold a nice fat 9k or 10k or whatever it should be as a humbucker.

I carefully removed all of the tape and bottom cover and I noticed that a red wire INSIDE of the pickup was not connected to anything.

I think I have identified START and END of the super tiny hair thin copper wire that is then attached at the end of its run to a much thicker piece of wire. The main problem is, I do not know where to connect this loose red wire that I found to one of these super hair thin coil wires that I have found.

Thanks to anyone who is kind enough to help me possibly repair this 1990 pickup. I will add pics later and hopefully this makes a lot more sense.

 

[DieterPinklage]

Re: Can anyone help me repair a disconnected coil on an Ibanez V1 Neck Humbucker?

I am back with PICS. I see a very thin bare copper wire coming from the the slug pole coil which connects to the black wire you can see in pic 1.
Then in the other pic you can see a RED WIRE. See how the bottom of it has a super thin copper wire connecting to it/ Well, the OTHER red wire up top I soldered to that but it makes no difference.

I do not know what I am looking at or where the main "top" red wire came loose from. I think this super thin bare copper wires might be the start and end of the coil?

How can my meter help me? What am I looking for in terms of continuity? I also see a black wire in there? I can take any pics requested and put a meter on anything for readings. I think I can save this patient, Dr.!

 

[DieterPinklage]

Re: Can anyone help me repair a disconnected coil on an Ibanez V1 Neck Humbucker?

when i continuity probe the main white lead at end of pickup, it beeps when i touch the super thin copper wire in the very first pic.

on the second pic where you see the red wire coming down from top and how that is soldered to the other red wire you see, that TOP wire is the one that was loose and as a hack I thought i should solder it to red wire. that does not help anything.