Need help diagnosing / fixing problem with neck pickup in HSS type guitar

Re: Need help diagnosing / fixing problem with neck pickup in HSS type guitar

Very low output is also a broken pickup, but with a capacitance coupling providing a small amount of signal to be generated. Wire the pickup in question to the jack, taking the wire of the neck pickup from the switch and putting it in place of the wire off the volume pot. This takes all of the wiring out the equation and tells you if the pickup itself is at fault.
 
Re: Need help diagnosing / fixing problem with neck pickup in HSS type guitar

I thought of the notion the pickup might be de-magnetized somewhat. However, would that give me a lower resistance reading? The reading I got from my multimeter was normal for this type of single coil pickup. Otherwise, I like this theory. If I'm wrong that resistance is correlated to magnetization, maybe this is the issue.

I'll try re-soldering the neck ground wires.

Ken
 
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