SG Build/Revamp - Pickup Wiring help.

[Dolando]

Hello,

I am starting my second project. [i](the first was a fretless Jazz if you're interested) [/i][url="http://i45.tinypic.com/2yy1q11.jpg"]http://i45.tinypic.com/2yy1q11.jpg[/url]

The second/current one is an SG that I got from ebay. A guitar tech i know seems to think it could be a 70's Japanese copy or something. Any way, i have had the body air-sprayed with my family crest, will eventually have all black hardware.




Like an idiot i took out the pickups out and didn't take note of which pickup was which, one pickup has more wires than the other. I could do with some help identifying which is which by the pic below. They are a set of Dimarzio Super Distortion Pickups, look quite old to me....



Also, I assume the 2 black and white wires on each are the normal pickup wires? Not sure what the others are though?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.

Edited May 9, 2012 by Dolando

[umph]

Love those picks ups, got a set in my sg. Normally the two darker ones are the shield and the negative end of the pick up so they both go on ground.

[Mr. Foxen]

Those don't look like a set of pickups, looks like one original one and one replaced one. If it is Dimarzio the wiring codes are easy to find. But with one replaced pickup and without 4 conductors on the otehr one, you can get some phase and polarity fun between them, that might do different things to the sound of both pickups on.

[Dolando]

Thanks for the reply guys.

I have been told that these are not a set. So will these pickups work together or is it possibly worth replacing one of them so they match?