For grins and giggles what would this jacked up wiring do?

[Gibson 1964]

I recently purchased a used bg1400. First thing I noticed was that the leads were extended into two leads, one of them being red and white together.

Black, bare, and green were soldered together, though bare was cut from the baseplate.

Would that setup be a perma-split or not sound at all?

I don't want to really bother installing it wrong, but was wondering if it would even work at all.

I plan on installing it on a 3 way switch, as an esquire with Series, parallel, split being the 3 way options.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: For grins and giggles what would this jacked up wiring do?

Black and green are either end of the pickup in series mode. Grounding both equals no sound at all. This might explain why a previous owner attempted to remedy the ground issue by snipping the bare wire.

SD convention is
black = hot
red + white = series link (and coil split)
green = pickup ground
bare = permanent screen ground.

For the series/single/parallel circuit, you must separate all four conductors then reattach the bare ground wire to either the metal baseplate of the pickup or the bridge plate of your guitar.

 

[Gibson 1964]

Re: For grins and giggles what would this jacked up wiring do?

Well, yeah, I have already reattached the bare wire, and am going to separate all wiring. I hadn't ever thought about anybody doing the wiring that occurred here, my initial thought was no sound, but I questioned how a pickup which was purchased years ago could survive in a guitar wired dead for those years. It was jacked up enough that I was second guessing what it would do.

But yeah, its going to conventional normalcy.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: For grins and giggles what would this jacked up wiring do?

I thought on stacks, split is done differently than normal hums? So black to green/ground isn't necessarily wrong? To me it sounds like it was made permanently single coil, if you hook the red/white to positive.