how hard is swapping out a humbucker on a Silhouette

[rorschah]

...while preserving the auto-splitting switching? Are those stock Dimarzio's normal splits, or some special thing?

I've rewired many a single coil and humbucker, but never actually done any splittable buckers before.

-thi

 

[ivanmihaljevic]

I don't think it should be too hard, but I don't really know too much about wiring

 

[ivanmihaljevic]

Oh, by the way, welcome to the forum!!!

 

[southpawmax]

welcome to the forum! when mine comes, depending on how i feel i may do the same. wiring guitars with coil splits and what not is easy, just look at how it was wired before you took the pickup out, maybe draw a diagram, and install your new pickup!
if you need existing diagrams, the seymour duncan website has every diagram i have ever needed

 

[tommyindelaware]

a caveman could so it.......

(sorry)
if ya can neatly cut & splice & solder...(& ya ain't colorblind) ....you will be fine .

 

[greenwizard]

if ya can neatly cut & splice & solder...(& ya ain't colorblind) ....you will be fine .

This is true for life in general!

 

[freewheel]

If you buy new pickups, the schematics for straight wiring, splits and phasing are normally included. Be careful when cross referencing between manufacturers, the wire colors are not always the same.
Dimarzio explanation in a pdf file.....

http://www.dimarzio.com/media/diagrams/4Conductor.pdf

 

[beej]

As mentioned ... it's not too difficult. Wire it up exactly as it was, but make sure you look out for a change in wiring colours.

If you're sticking with DiMarzio you're fine. If not, compare against a list of well known colour codes- you can find one here.

Good luck!

 

[Astrofreq]

a caveman could so it.......

Is that Latin?