Wireing help

[Ferguson767ER]

I want to install some new GFS pickups in my hollow body guitar the problem is when i opened up the guitar there were only 2 wires going to the pickup a outter wire (bare) and and an inner wire that was coted in white. the GFS pick ups as 5 wires a green, white, red, black, and bare. what do i do?

pleas help

thanks ferguson

[Bruce Bennett]

you should have an instruction sheet that came with your new pickups.

The bare wire on your old pickup is the ground and the white "inner" wire is the hot lead.

I'm not familar with GFS pickups personally, so I can't tell you the specific color code,

but two of them will be wired together and taped off. this is the coil tap.

while the bare wire is always the shield wire and will go to the same place as the bare wire on the old pickup.

the remaining two colors will be hot and ground. your instruction sheet should give you the color code.

[Ferguson767ER]

i recieved the pickups used 2 of the wires are put together the red and the whie the 3 others remaine.

[Bruce Bennett]

then I would try Black to hot and green to Ground. that would be standard for Seymour Duncan and many others.

Oh and it's perfectly OK to tye the green and bare wires together.

[mattburnside]

Originally posted by Bruce Bennett then I would try Black to hot and green to Ground. that would be standard for Seymour Duncan and many others.

 

 

This is correct for GFS pickups as well, I can confirm this having installed a pair a couple of weeks ago.

[Ferguson767ER]

THANKLS FOR THE help my guitar sound GREAT NOW