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White is normally +ve (often called hot) and black is -ve/cold.
Like this:
Your new one will be plastic-coated wire +ve/hot and braided -ve/cold.
So replace white with wire and black with braid.
Both pickups need a ground connection, which is normally soldered to the back of a potentiometer (volume knob), as do all the potentiometers and there’ll be a wire coming from the bridge that goes to ground also. The mothership ground is the sleeve tab of the jack socket; every other ground should link to this.
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Hmm. This is going to require some drilling/routing to make the pickup fit. Not too worried about that. It's not exactly a '52' and it's already routed weirdly so I'll just drill two holes wide enough for the pickup legs to sit in. Only need sto be around 5-7mm deep.
I'm still a wiring dunce tho and am wary of fucking up. The new pickup has one single core wire with a plastic insulator and woven metallic shielding coming from it. The diagram shows that the wire connects to the first tab on the volume pot. Easy. But it also shows a connection coming at right angles from the wire to ground/earth. Would this be from the shielding? And how do I know what else is ground/earth?
Also the neck pickup i'm replacing has two wires, a black and a white one from each end of the coil which from my rudimentary understanding of electronic i'm assuming is the +ve/-ve. In which case, what do i do with the other one? Just pull then through and unsolder? How come the humbucker only has one wire?
I've been googling and had no luck funding the perfect idiot's guide yet. Can anyone link me up?