lungimsam
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Installing new v/blend /tone harness and pickups.
Since I cannot wire the pup leads to the harness pots while the harness is inside the bass body (since it is a semi-hollow body).
Which way would be best to connect pups to harness?
1. Wire up entire harness outside of bass then make the Bisonic pup leads long enough to come out of the bridge wire lead hole to the outside of bass and then solder pup leads to harness outside the body, then put the harness back in the bass cavity with everything wired together.
OR:
2. solder up the harness normally but add in 4 jumpers for the pickups (2 grnd/2hot) to be soldered to the pup leads after the harness is installed . These jumpers would be long enough to emerge from the F hole, along with the pup leads and can be joined outside the bass above the Fhole so that I could attach/remove the pup leads to and from the jumpers at will so I never have to remove the harness in order to install new pickups if I ever change pickups again.
If I do option 2, would I have to match the jumper wire to whatever comes from the pups or just use normal white and black push back wires for the jumpers?
Thanks for your advice.
Since I cannot wire the pup leads to the harness pots while the harness is inside the bass body (since it is a semi-hollow body).
Which way would be best to connect pups to harness?
1. Wire up entire harness outside of bass then make the Bisonic pup leads long enough to come out of the bridge wire lead hole to the outside of bass and then solder pup leads to harness outside the body, then put the harness back in the bass cavity with everything wired together.
OR:
2. solder up the harness normally but add in 4 jumpers for the pickups (2 grnd/2hot) to be soldered to the pup leads after the harness is installed . These jumpers would be long enough to emerge from the F hole, along with the pup leads and can be joined outside the bass above the Fhole so that I could attach/remove the pup leads to and from the jumpers at will so I never have to remove the harness in order to install new pickups if I ever change pickups again.
If I do option 2, would I have to match the jumper wire to whatever comes from the pups or just use normal white and black push back wires for the jumpers?
Thanks for your advice.
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