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The bridge pickup is hotter than the neck pickup as the strings don't vibrate as much there... (So I recall).
Before you tear apart a perfectly good guitar, you can get single coil pups and dual rail humbuckers for less than $10 if you shop around... Hell, go to fleabay and a chinese company (or 20) will send you single coil pickups for $5 ea...
I found a local luthier who had a box of old pickups that were just fine, but people had upgraded. He sold me a few cheap once I told him what I was using them for.
I really like humbuckers as they are much less noisy than the single coil pickups, and are still dirt cheap. Generally, pickups have a black wire, which is the ground, or they will have a shielded wire, where the ground surrounds the hot wire.
If you're not sure, I have a dual rail humbucker I somehow managed to break one of the coils, so now it's functionally a single coil pickup *though not as hot. It still works, but not as a humbucker, if you want it, PM me and I'll send it to you...
The next trick is volume and tone controls. For humbucker type pickups, I use 500K ohm audio taper pots for both, but there's been a lot of discussion over the years of what's best. Even the various manufacturers use different values and types (Audio/linear taper).
Now you know everything I do...
John
If you look at amazon or ebay and search dual rail humbucker, you'll find it... also, the epiphone style ones can be found as a pair for less than $20 on amazon, and work fine for a CBG...
http://www.amazon.com/Humbucker-Pickup-Chrome-Gibson-Replacement/dp...
http://www.amazon.com/Generic-Black-Humbucker-Guitar-Pickup/dp/B00E...
They can be found on ebay cheaper, but shipping can take forever...
For the silver epiphone type...The one wire is coaxial... ground/hot only...
The dual rail humbucker you can wire a switch if you want...
If you go onto ebay and look up cbg pick-ups you can purchase then very reasonable for around $15.00 or less if you buy more than one....
You'll also need to ground the strings to the ground terminal on the jack.
There is a ground wire on the pickup... The two wires that come out: one is hot, the other ground... And Yes, George is right: Don't forget to ground your strings. I run a wire from the jack ground, and I use either brass ferrules or pop-rivets for string guides. Those I solder that wire to... Works great!
If you make a license plate guitar, the whole thing is automatically grounded... :-)
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