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Two humbuckers · 3-way toggle · 2 volumes, 2 tones · 50s wiring

Wolfetone 4-conductor humbuckers, standard series wiring. Tone cap fed from the volume output: turning the volume down keeps more treble.

  • 2 humbuckers
  • 3-way toggle
  • 2 volumes, 2 tones
  • 50s wiring
N Slug coil (N): red start, green finish S Screw coil (S): black start, white finish NECK HUMBUCKER N Slug coil (N): red start, green finish S Screw coil (S): black start, white finish BRIDGE HUMBUCKER 500k NECK VOLUME 500k NECK TONE 500k BRIDGE VOLUME 500k BRIDGE TONE .022µF .022µF 3-WAY TOGGLEseen from the back both center blades = output NECK OUTPUT BRIDGE GROUND TIPSLEEVE OUTPUT JACK To bridge / tailpiece ground Two humbuckers · 3-way toggle · 2 volumes, 2 tones · 50s wiringWolfetone 4-conductor humbuckers, standard series wiring. Tone cap fed from the volume output: turning the volume down keeps more treble. WOLFETONE PICKUPSHand made in the USA since 1998 Red: hot Black: ground Green + white: joined Bare: shield → ground Hookup wire: signal Hookup wire: ground Solder blob = joined. A hop means wires only pass each other. Pots are seen from the back, lugs up. © Wolfetone Pickups
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Step by step

  1. Neck pickup RED (hot) → right-hand lug of the neck volume pot.
  2. Neck pickup GREEN + WHITE → solder together, insulate with heat-shrink or tape. They connect to nothing else.
  3. Neck pickup BLACK (ground) → ground (back of the neck volume pot).
  4. Neck pickup BARE shield → ground, with the black wire.
  5. Bridge pickup RED (hot) → right-hand lug of the bridge volume pot.
  6. Bridge pickup GREEN + WHITE → solder together and insulate. They connect to nothing else.
  7. Bridge pickup BLACK (ground) → ground.
  8. Bridge pickup BARE shield → ground, with the black wire.
  9. Neck volume LEFT lug → bend it down and solder it to the back of the pot (ground).
  10. Bridge volume LEFT lug → bend it down and solder it to the back of the pot (ground).
  11. Neck volume MIDDLE lug → neck lug of the 3-way toggle.
  12. Bridge volume MIDDLE lug → bridge lug of the 3-way toggle.
  13. Solder one leg of the .022µF capacitor to the neck volume MIDDLE lug (together with the wire to the switch).
  14. Solder the other capacitor leg to the neck tone MIDDLE lug.
  15. Neck tone LEFT lug → bend it down and solder it to the back of the pot (ground). The tone pot’s right lug is not used.
  16. Solder one leg of the other .022µF capacitor to the bridge volume MIDDLE lug (with the switch wire), and the other leg to the bridge tone MIDDLE lug.
  17. Bridge tone LEFT lug → bend it down and solder it to the back of the pot (ground). The right lug is not used.
  18. 3-way toggle OUTPUT (center) lug → TIP lug of the output jack.
  19. Output jack SLEEVE lug → ground.
  20. 3-way toggle frame ground lug → ground.
  21. Run one ground wire joining the backs of all four pots, the switch ground, the jack sleeve and the bridge/tailpiece ground wire.

Before you solder

  • Pots are shown from the back with the lugs pointing up. Turning a knob up moves the middle lug’s contact toward the right-hand lug.
  • Before soldering the switch, check it with a meter: in the neck position, the outer lug that connects to the center lug is the neck lug.
  • Jack: the tip lug is on the long springy arm that touches the tip of the plug; the sleeve lug is on the frame.
  • For the "modern" version (tone fed before the volume), see the other two-humbucker diagram. Never join red to black: that shorts the pickup.