Anyone with experience changing JS100 pickups?

[w4llsb4lls]

Hi all,

Hate to ask for help on my first post, but I have searched through the forum looking for relevant materials on the subject with no specific success.

I have a 2006 JS100, and have just bought some Dimarzio's (Paf Pro / ToneZone).
Opened the guitar and the stock pups are 3 wire types, the new Dimarzios are 4.
The Ibanez and Dimarzio diagrams are conflicting, and not much help to clarify things.

I dont mind admitting that I have zero experience with pickups, although my soldering is okay. I would really like to do the job myself as the local guitar tech said that he doesn't touch pick-ups (go figure).

If someone has had similar experience and can sort me out, that would be top of the pops.

Thanks in advance.

[djohns74]

Very good attitude, particularly if you already have experience with soldering, installing your own pickups is absolutely the way to go.

Found this diagram online, which on the surface should be exactly what you're after. The guy I swiped it off of claims to have gotten it directly from DiMarzio, so that sounds fairly legit. Looking over the wiring, it looks as though it should be correct to me. Let me know if it makes any sense.

[w4llsb4lls]

Hey thanks man, looks good to me.

Makes absolute sense, with a few issues I need to iron out.

The paf pro and tone zone are both 4 conductor pups, whereas the stock ones only have 3 wires. There is red, green, black, and white, so I suppose I need to understand how to colour match them with the diagram.

Cheers again.

[w4llsb4lls]

I've just read my last post and looked at the diagram, and seen exactly the same colour match up My apologies lol.

Could I just ask, green & bare? black & bare? Like I said there are the four colours of red, white, green, and black - not sure about the bare part...

[djohns74]

Originally Posted by w4llsb4lls

I've just read my last post and looked at the diagram, and seen exactly the same colour match up My apologies lol.

Could I just ask, green & bare? black & bare? Like I said there are the four colours of red, white, green, and black - not sure about the bare part...

Your pickups should also have a bare wire coming off of them in addition to the four colors.