Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help

cturboaddict

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First and foremost, thanks for having me on the site. New guitar player, so feel free to Troll after helping me. LOL

Guitar is an Ibanez Rg6003fm with 2 Humbuckers, 5 way switch, 1 volume, 1 tone.
Switch is a Cortek 2502N
Switch operates as such 1 (Neck) 5 (Bridge)
1. Neck in Series
2. Neck in Parallel
3. Neck/Bridge in Series
4. Neck/Bridge (Half of each humbucker, I'm assuming split)
5. Bridge in Series

I found some photos, and searched for someone else with the RG6003fm. I did find a wiring diagram from Hoshino Gakki Co. LTD. But the colors do not match with the ibanez wiring. This was the closest link to what I have found, but the diagram from Hoshino is not lining up with what I have.
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?307756-Help-with-Ibanez-5-way-wiring&

This is my first pickup swap putting a SD Jazz neck in and a JB Bridge.
There are two large wires coming in from the pickups. One is Green, One is Black. (I have not stripped them or pulled them apart just yet until I have a better direction of what to do)
The lugs are the switch are wired as such.
1 (Neck position) 8 (Bridge Position)

1. White Wire to Main Green
2. Red Wire Jumpered to 7/White Wire to main Black
3. Red Wire to Main Black
4. Red wire to lug on Volume Pot
5. Red Wire to Main Green
6. Black Wire to Volume Pot Ground (back of Pot)
7. Red Wire jumpered to 2
8. Black Wire to Main Black

Can anyone help me with what Ibanez Wires relate to Seymour Duncan pickups? I cannot find an accurate wiring diagram that follows the same path as the Ibanez.

Thanks!!!!
 
Re: Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help

Or better yet, if anyone can just tell me where the wires on the Duncan pickups need to go, that would fix this all.
 
Re: Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help


Well, I was able to get it done by using this color code chart. Looks like the Bridge Pickup was a four wire system, and the neck only a 3 wire. I retraced where those wire went and replaced everything semi following to the wiring diagram previously mentioned.

Took maybe 6 hours to find the info, and 1 hour to actual do the job. LOL
Now to start playing better...
 
Re: Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help

What's fun is when you flip the magnet in the neck and reverse it's wind (by swapping wires) and then you get the two inner slug coils as hum cancelling in the respective switch position that does that. I will get a pic of my switch into this thread later today if anyone is interested, so you can see where the wires go. I would try to explain it, but pictures are better and can be saved as a reference. I am sure others have done this and could easily figure it out, it wasn't tough for me, but it would have been handy the first time I wired this kind of thing, since my second pickup swap ever was on one of those switches.
 
Re: Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help

What's fun is when you flip the magnet in the neck and reverse it's wind (by swapping wires) and then you get the two inner slug coils as hum cancelling in the respective switch position that does that. I will get a pic of my switch into this thread later today if anyone is interested, so you can see where the wires go. I would try to explain it, but pictures are better and can be saved as a reference. I am sure others have done this and could easily figure it out, it wasn't tough for me, but it would have been handy the first time I wired this kind of thing, since my second pickup swap ever was on one of those switches.

I'm definitely interested.
 
Re: Ibanez RG6003fm 2 hunbuckers 5way switch 1 vol 1 tone wiring help

Ok, here is a picture of the switch wired up, this only works if you flip the magnet from the stock Duncan way, and will allow you to have the 2 inner slug coils active with strat like noise cancelation.20180521_114043.jpg
 
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