LOCATING PICKUPS ON THE GUITARDetermine where you want to locate your pickup(s). Then find the center line of theneck and draw a center line on the body. Use the paper template on the back of thissheet to locate the routing and the pickup mounting screw holes. DRILLING PICKUP WIRE HOLEIf you are mounting the pickup directly on a wood body, you must drill a hole for the pick-up wire. Use a 3/16” or 1/4” drill bit. If you have to drill through more than 2” of wood,you should use a special 12” long drill bit, which is available at most hardware stores.PICKUP WIRINGAll Carvin 22 series pickups have three wires plus a bare shield wire. The shield wirealways goes to ground. The white wire only gets used if you want dual-to-single coilswitching. If you don’t want to use this feature, then tape the white wire back. Theblack and red wires are to be used for standard humbucking operation. Solder red tohot and black to ground.If your guitar sounds out of phase with both pickups on,reverse the red and black wires of one pickup.WIRING THE CONTROLSIf you are using one of the Carvin circuits, just follow the desired wiring diagram. Youshould install a ground wire that runs from the tailpiece or bridge to the control area. Solderthis ground wire to the back of one of the potentiometers. Be careful not to use excessiveheat when soldering to the potentiometers or switches as you may damage them.PHASE SWITCH WIRINGA phase switch can be wired into any two or three pickup guitar. As the diagram belowshows, only one pickup is hooked up to the phase switch. The phase switch will onlyfunction when another pickup is used in conjunction with the pickup that is switched outof phase. The phase switch will give a nasal muted type sound with slightly less output.PICKUPS3WHTREDBLKP1VOLP2TONEC1DualSingleSHIELDGNDL11JACKP2TONEP1VOLGNDL11JACKNECKPICKUPBRIDGEPICKUPS1C1 WBRWBRS3S3DualSingleDualSingleSHIELDSHIELDKIT 30Single pickup guitar with volume, tone & coil splitter.KIT 40 DC127 (includes 2 coil splitters)For 2 Pickup guitar. (Used on the Carvin DC127 model)P2TONEP1VOLC1REDBLKREDBLKNECKPICKUPBRIDGEPICKUPS1SHIELDGNDL11JACKKIT 402 Pickup guitar with a 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume & 1 toneTOP COIL ABOTTOM COIL BRWBGRED and WHITE wires: Coil ABLACK and GREEN wires: Coil BDual-Single Coil Switch WiringTo obtain humbucking operation when playing through both pickups in the single coilmode, wire one humbucking pickup using fig 1and the other pickup with the diagramin fig 2(also see Kit 40 DC127 diagram). Neck pickup coil A together with bridgepickup coil B sounds more like a telecaster. Neck pickup coil B & bridge pickup coil Atogether sound more like a Stratocaster.Fig 1. Coil “A” on in single coil mode.S3PICKUPWHTGRNREDTOGROUNDHOT OUTRGBWSHIELDTOGROUNDTOHOT TO VOLUMEOR SELECTOR SW.SERIES/PARALELLBLKS3PICKUPWHTBLKSHIELDTO GROUNDREDHOT OUTPUTTO VOLUMEOR SELECTORHOT OUTBLK & SHLD to GRNDSERIES/SPLIT/PHASEDON/ON/ONRWGGRNFig 2. Coil “B” on in single coil mode.CARVIN PICKUP WIRING INSTRUCTIONSS2PICKUPWHTGRNBLKREDHOT OUTPUTTO VOLUMEOR SELECTORTOGROUNDSHIELDFig 3. This wiring gives you three different sounds.1. Top single coil, 2. dual coil humbucking or 3. bottom single coil. (As used on the TL60-33 circuit)S4SWITCHP1VOLP2TONENECKPICKUPBRIDGEPICKUPL11JACKSingleDualSingleGNDWRBSBRSS2C1 TL60-33For 2 Pickup guitar. With 3-way Pickup Selector (S4) & 3-way Coil Splitter Switch (S2). PHASE SWITCH WIRING76-00015PICKUPREDGWBLKTOGROUNDSHIELDTOGROUNDHOT OUTPUTTO VOLUMEOR SELECTORS3
S60 & H60 Routing TemplateH50N Routing TemplateC22, H22 & M22 Routing Template3 5/32"3 5/16"1 1/2"1 7/16"ROUT1" DEEPROUT 5/8" DEEP5/64" DRILL1/2" DEEPROUT 9/16" DEEP 3 3/4"5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEP1 9/16"15/16"13/16"1 7/32"3"3 5/16"3/4"5/64" DRILL 1/2" DEEPROUT 5/8" DEEP P1VOLP2TONENECKPICKUPMIDDLEPICKUPBRIDGEPICKUPC1 L11JACKGNDS5SWITCHSSBBRRSBRKit 50 with 5-way Pickup Selector 3 Pickup guitar with S5 switch. (Used on DC135 with 26 option)P2TONEP1VOLC1S3 NECKPICKUPBRIDGE PICKUPBLKREDBLKBLKREDREDSHIELDSHIELDS3S3MIDDLEPICKUPSHIELDGNDL11JACKKIT 503 Pickup guitar with 3 ON/OFF switches. (Used on the Carvin DC135 model)Use these templates to route for Carvin pickups. Templates are exact size.