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Old July 1st, 2009, 04:17 PM   #89 (permalink)
Deaf Eddie
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The drawing is correct.

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I meant does it matter on which post I wire to when wiring to the bridges on the switch?
Ah! I now take that to mean, the JUMPERS BETWEEN THE LUGS. No, if two lugs are jumpered together it does not matter which lug you connect the lead to.

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As I said a couple of posts up, IF you don't get the bridge-alone in throw #1, then your neck pickup has another path to ground.

Perhaps you nicked the neck pup's green lead when you stripped back the wires, and it is shorting out on the bare wire/shielding in the lead bundle.

Check for continuity as described in the above post between the green lead and the guitar's ground. NEXT, unsolder the neck pup's BARE wire lead, and with the green lead still disconnected, check to see if it has continuity with the green lead - it should NOT.

FWIW, the neck-always-on problem is the most common error novices make with this mod - they think the neck pup needs to be grounded, and it does NOT. It ONLY grounds through the 4-way. It seems apparent to me that your neck pup is grounding through something BESIDES the 4-way, and that's why it's always on. Fix that, and it should work.
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