here the current status of the wiring, how to proceed now? I got two tv jones ready to be hooked up but I don't now how to do it...

a better one

connect the hot wire from each pickup to each outer lug on the switch, and ground the pickups to the switch as well, I think.

what about the ground wires from the guitar?

what about the ground wires from the guitar?

ground to your bigsby/tailpeice. (Usually a hole underneath the tail plate on the bottom of the side. Just use your old ground wire)

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_1v_1t_3w

there you go. For single conductiors, you gotta put the hot leads on the outside, and ground them to the ground on the switch.

wonderful, now I got more questions!
the wires form the pickup are black white and silver (little ones) it's a tv jones!
so how can I translate these three wires with those I see in the sketch in living color!

god I almost forgot, thank you!

Right I see what your saying.

Well the theres a smaller diagram box on the bottom left that shows how you would wireing a single conductor (2 leads instead of 4)

It should say on TV's site, but i'm not sure if black is hot, or the ground with his pups. but once you figure that out, it should be easy as 3.14 continued. (pie)

so your switch should have 4 prongs on one side, and 1 ground on the back right?

Bend the inner two together if you havn't already, Hot goes on the outer two from respective pickups. (pay attention to how you wire it so you can remember which way is bridge side and neck side) on the toggle. the rear one that doesn't bend is ground.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p66/Eddiemw2005/Capture.jpg Damn, that ended up being to small, if you have windows 7 you can use magnafier...

I looked it up, White will be hot Black will be ground :)

my switch has three prongs, it's an old kind of switch
http://www.choppersmusic.com/CHOPPRODUCTS/SW25.jpg

hmm, not familiar with one of those. I would say head into the shop and buy one of these if you can, but someone else will probably have some EXP with one of those.

http://www.stewmac.com/product_images/1lg/1217/Straight_Toggle_Switch_lg.jpg

damn this is getting more complicated than I thought!

Yeah, I guess I would just get one of the normal 3-way toggles. Seeing as how no one else spoke up about that one.

Here's a wiring diagram that may be of some help, ignore the extra pickup wires that are soldered together on the diagram..

http://static.zoovy.com/img/guitarelectronics/W650-H550-Bffffff/W/wd2hh3t11_00.jpg

Call Tom then let us know how good his customer service is.

Seymour has a bunch of tech help on his site.

As soon as someone says it's too complicated, I tell them to take it to a professional.

Try doing it, you really can't do anything too bad. Just don't leave the soldering iron touching any wires or components for more than a few seconds.

Thank you Tara!

Hey Jeff, thanks for the advice, I 'm really good with the soldering as long as I know what to do, I don't know how the pops wiring works and I think it's time to learn something!

Here's a wiring diagram that may be of some help, ignore the extra pickup wires that are soldered together on the diagram..

http://static.zoovy.com/img/guitarelectronics/W650-H550-Bffffff/W/wd2hh3t11_00.jpg

there's only one single wire that goes to the output socket?
ok I'm trying this one but I'm not sure about the ground stuff...world of HUM I'm coooooooooooooooming!

there's only one single wire that goes to the output socket?
ok I'm trying this one but I'm not sure about the ground stuff...world of HUM I'm coooooooooooooooming!

There's 2 wires, they've just simplified the diagram, everything that needs to go to ground has the little ground symbol next to it.. you'd be soldering all of those to the back of your vol pot (or however else you plan to do your grounding).

The middle lug is the common lug, the outer ones are active based on the position of the toggle, opposite to the direction the toggle points. I.e., if the toggle is pointing left, the right lug will be active. Both active in the middle position.

Active means connected to the middle lug. Check continuity with a meter to see how it works.

my switch has three prongs, it's an old kind of switch
http://www.choppersmusic.com/CHOPPRODUCTS/SW25.jpg

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I will make another beautiful and professional sketch to show you what I got from the diagram!

The Diagram your looking at is using the same type of switch that the SD diagram was using. Below I've explained what to do with the switch and how to ground to your pots. So wire your pots as the SD diagram has shown, except the Green/bare wires are going to be your black wire on your TV-J's. So Wire your pots up like in the diagram. then follow the instructions below.


Put one hot PUP lead on the Left side of the switch, the other hot lead Right side of the switch, then wire the center part to the Hot tip on the output.

Put the ground PUP leads on the back of your pots, ground your pots to your bridge/tailpeice and your output's negative point.

That switch was confusing me, but if you use that SD diagram, and do What I've said with the switch, you will be golden.

This is what I got from the diagram plus two more question :o

This is what I got from the diagram plus two more question :o

Question one: Yes,
Question two: Those are the negative/ground comming out of the pickups.

Ground those to the pots, ground the pots to the output jack and your tailpeice.

Question one: Yes,
Question two: Those are the negative/ground comming out of the pickups.

Ground those to the pots, ground the pots to the output jack and your tailpeice.

wait, first I want to thank the wonderful rejecting skill against dumb questions you have, I'm a novice here and I'm trying to learn something, I really appreciate your help!

About the first question, I'm ok.
The second: the negative/ground coming out of the pops (black and silver in tv jones), are these two/four going on both of the top of the pots? in chain? then from there to the output jack sleeve prong and from there to the bridge ground wire?

if yes what would I do with the ground from the neck?
I think I'll need a shower after all this...

the black and uncovered wires are both grounds and go to the back of the pots.

http://tvjones.com/images/wiring-inst.gif

Here you go:

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr319/megabutter/basicwiringdiagram.jpg

I'm diggin I'm diggin...
so now there only one wire left that I don't know what to do with, there's a groung coming from under the neck pop, I guess that one goes on the top of the pot too...

no wait I'm not digging, your diagram is different from the previous one, I have followed that one.
The cap is wired differently...????

either way will work.

Use the top or first one if your pots are spread out at all. It's two ways of wiring up the same basic function.

When the tone pots internal wiper is at the open lug, it's not in the circuit. As we turn the tone pot down, the wiper moves toward connecting the pickup signal to the grounded lug on the tone pot. Same as your volume pot. However, that capacitor keeps the low frequencies from going to ground and passes them to the output jack.

So, as long as the cap is between the pickup signal and ground, we'll get the "tone control" funciton.

That an ok explanation?

we'll see once I got all wired and good working...kidding! thanks.

Mikante,

You get this up and running?

Almost, Bridge works, Neck works, middle is a kill switch, plus, the tone pot isn't working!

Pics?

I'll try and spot something. :)