Dimebucker Wiring. Hot or Not??

[Bigdumbface]

Hi. Can someone help me with a pickup I came across on a banged up guitar. I am getting 0 ohms when testing the pickup. It seems dead so I opened it up and it looks like someone has had a go at it as the soldering is a bit sketchy particularly the north start and north end (black and white) wires. Should they be wired the other way around as in black wired to north start and white connected to north south? Could this explain why I am getting no reading on a multimeter?
Fyi I am checking the wiring with read and white connected, green connected to shield with multimeter probes on the black and green shield combo.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Artie]

To be clear, zero ohms and "no" ohms aren't the same thing. Are you reading a short (zero), or open, (no ohms)?

Try reading across black and white, and then red and green. You can measure right on the back of the pup. That will tell you if just one coil is "open."

 

[Bigdumbface]

Thanks ArtieToo. By zero I meant not reading at all. I have done as you suggested. Across black and white, no reading at all. Red and green reading 8.50 so it looks like one coil is open. I would assume that it doesn't matter where the black and white are located on the pickup as either way it would be open.
It looks like it's toast!

 

[Artie]

Yeah. The Dimebucker is one of those designs that's virtually impossible to physically split the coils. It could still be used as a single coil, but that would be impractical. That's too bad.