Fender vintage p bass 63 pickup wiring.

[Mickyk]

Anyone got any advice or tips on how to wire up a set of Fender  vintage 63 precision pick up into a MIM p bass,before i dive in and mess it up.

Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Are you keeping the stock pots/jack, buying a pre-made loom, or making your own loom from new components?

 

If you’re making a loom use cloth covered ‘push-up’ cable. Also don’t worry about spending money on an expensive capacitor—a ceramic disc or other cheap type will give the same tone as an expensive fancy-pants boutique capacitor of the same capacitance.

 

If you’re a novice at soldering you’ll got better joints if you can find some lead/tin solder rather than the more ubiquitous lead-free stuff that requires a much higher temperature to flow.

 

It is a good time to take the opportunity to shield the control cavity & pickup cavity with anti-slug copper tape when you’re changing the pickup.

[Lozz196]

If you’re not confident with soldering contact our very own @KiOgon, he makes replacement looms which only need a small screwdriver to connect up. Very good quality and very easy to install.

[bloke_zero]

And the cap value will make a difference to the amount of treble that gets rolled off - they go from .1uf to .068uf to .047 - most people go .047 with the higher values taking out more of the top end when turned down.