How to wire Nazgul/Sentient set into Ibanez 5 way switch?

Which exact guitar and what pickups are the original pickups? Also what are the colors of wires in the top of the photo, it's hard to tell because of heatshrink tubing

 

My guess is the COLD HOT upper refers to the top coil of the neck pickup Start and Finish; which for Seymour Duncan is Black (start) and White (finish). The lower coil is Green (start) and Red (finish). The OUT goes to your potentiometer, and the bridge TAP is where you probably take a North and a South wire and solder them both to that lug, while the other North and South go to HOT and GRD. That’s what I’d try anyways.

 

Try this

 

that one scheme should be good if you have a reverse polarity sentient since most of the time Ibby puts RP pickups in the neck (should say rp in the sticker next to Sentient), if it's a regular one then it should probably go bare-green-red-white-black from left to right in the bottom, top is ok

 

Green is the start of the winding on the lower coil. It goes to ground for a typical series/out of phase (humbucking) use. This switch seems to want each wire separate, and I’m assuming that the start means HOT and the finish means COLD.

EDIT: unless, like @oversteve says, the reverse polarity isn’t standard, then try the GRWB left to right.

 

@Sentient Is there any way you could post a picture of how it looked when you finished it?! I am trying to put in the Pegasus/ Sentient set in my same style ibanez and its driving me crazy!

 

look at the picture few posts before, the top row marked there, and the bottom row bare-green-red-white-black from left to right

 

Can't you just match the wires' color codes and wire up the Nazgul Sentient exactly the way the Quantums were wired?

Often when I switch pickups, I just figure out the color codes and swap the joints one at at time until the new pickups are wired and the old ones can simply be unscrewed and removed.

 

I have the same switch in an RGA42FM and I am trying to replace the Quantums with Gravity Storms. Are the Humbuckers in your example opposite polarity? I am trying to determine if I need to flip the wiring or magnet of the neck GS when I install it.

 

@Sentient @oversteve yeah i did that, and thanks for that by the way! The bridge sounds perfect, but the neck pickup (from the middle part of the selector and on) feedback a lot. The sound is still coming out and sounds okay, but you can hear the buzz behind it. thats why i was hoping to see yours. but if that's what you did then i guess i am missing something else entirely! any ideas?! Thanks!

 

no. ibanez's OEM pickups don't follow duncan wiring colors, so you have to swap some around. I don't remember if all ibby OEMs follow dimarzio wiring codes or not, but that's usually a good place to start ime since ibby regularly uses dimarzios.

 

Oh I know Duncan's colors don't follow the OEM colors. That's not what I was trying to say. Sorry for the confusion. I was saying to find the analogous wires and arrange them the same as the wires you're replacing and then replace one joint at a time. Not that you should use the exact same colors, but make the same connections whatever the colors may be and that replacing each one at a time can help in avoiding confusion like this.

 

essentially one of these wirings for the neck pickup should work depending on the type of SD pup you have:

from left to right
bare-green-red-white-black
bare-white-black-green-red
bare-red-green-black-white
bare-black-white-red-green