Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled

[sun baked snow cave]

I am looking to disable the rythm circuit in my jazzmaster. To do this I need to wire it for 2 single coils with 1 tone and 1 volume and a pickup selector.

I am a little confused in terms of grounding and where to ground and how to ground. My jazzmaster had ground from the body aswell going somewhere (not to sure). I think this had to do with it having shielding paint in the cavity (it is a VM btw).

I had my hand at rewiring it and got wayy too much noise already. ALSO is the hot wire from the pickup always black? My pickups have black and white wires (pickup wizard jazzmasters) and I am not sure if I am attaching the wrong wire to the pickup selector.

Thanks for the help!!!

[sun baked snow cave]

I also have a multimeter at my disposal but not much idea how to use it to check anything

[sun baked snow cave]

If anyone has a diagram that would be great.

[skullservant]

Pulling up a diagram for you now. It'll be a tele diagram but work the same for you

[skullservant]

The ground wires you see go to the trem thimbles and to the body

Here is the diagram:

http://www.riograndepickups.com/images/ ... le_LRG.pdf

Usually black wires indicate ground, but I'm not sure of pickup wizard

[sun baked snow cave]

It doesn't really show where the ground wires are coming from though. Where would I attach the groudn wire from the trem thimbles and body?

[skullservant]

Unless you ripped out ground wires that were originally on the body and the thimbles, they should already be installed on your guitar

[sun baked snow cave]

Yeah but what I am asking is where do I attachj those ground wires. One to each pot? Sorry I am doing this all for the first time and I appreciate your help!!

[skullservant]

No problem dude. Really, as long as those wires are attached to SOME part of the ground, you will be fine. It can be one wire per pot, both wires on one pot, etc etc as long as they are going to ground

[sun baked snow cave]

For some reason it is not getting me any sound, if I get a multimeter what am i lookin for, I have never really used one before

[skullservant]

Pictures would be AWESOME

[Decibill]

The ground wire from your pots and pickup circuit must lead to the ground of the input jack.

[sun baked snow cave]

Here is a picture and I have labelled most of everything. Any help is much appreciated as I would like to have the guitar working by Saturday.

You guy's see any problems? Sorry if the picture is not too clear.

[skullservant]

You should have a hot signal going to the larger tab on the jack and not ground, that's the issue. Switch your jack wiring around first and see if that solves it

[sun baked snow cave]

Oh woops! I didnt even know that they were different sizes. Do you see any other potential problems?