NCEG
Awesome, especially for price - requires ground wire mod for 4-wire alt pickup configs
These pickups look and sound great. Installed in a custom Les Paul style kit build with 4 pots that I chose to use the complicated "Jimmy Page" wiring/switching system for more than 20 different tone combinations, so I had to do modification on ground wire per below. NOTE - if you want to wire alternative switching or push/pull pots, these humbuckers (like many) are technically "4 wire" with north and south start/finish leads for each pickup, HOWEVER they use a grounding wire wrapped around the black wire like shielding (ie., ground on each pickup is part of the "North Start" wire), which is why the black wires are thicker and have their own shrink sleeve. The wiring diagram list the ground as being part of the N-Start black wire, but if you're a novice, it's not plainly stated for wiring purposes. IF you intend to wire guitars other than straight humbucking, many options require a SEPARATE ground wire (so in effect, you need 5 total separate wires including ground, not 4 with a common ground to one of those): After spending some time getting frustrated at not finding any websites/blogs that fully explained this situation on humbuckers like Wilkinsons, I then determined I could make these work pretty easily with my own modifications; if you have decent DIY and wiring skills, this is a pretty simple job that takes about 10-15m per pickup - buyer/user beware regarding warranties, etc. Instead of the common "wrapped ground", I had to create an independent ground wire (in effect, a total of 5 wires - 2 start/finish for each coil of humbucker, plus a 5th ground wire). Once I sorted all this out myself and examined the pickups, here's my steps (sorry, didn't take pics while doing this but marked up attached image): 1). Remove 4 back plate screws on pickup, carefully remove plate. There will be a bit of wax but they came right apart without any issues/damage. You have to pull the common wire sleeve thru the hole in corner of plate. 2). Once you've exposed the common wire f