electric guitar diagram

[foundoutand]

Could any one tell me or find me a diagram or point me to the direction of a website that tells you how to wire up an electric guitar. I have 2 humbuckers with a white wire and some bare metal wire running round the outside in a spiral way ( i presume that this is shielding). I also have 2 volum pots and two tone pots and a pickup selector switch with 4 connectors on one side and one big thick connector on the other side. Ive tried loads of times to wire these up (from diagrams ive found) but i always get bad feed back when i test it.

[j2buttonsw]

http://www.guitarnuts.com/ is pretty good. The noise maybe from poor shielding

[sft42]

Yeah the guitar your descirbing is very obviously the typical Les Paul arrangment which is famous for not being noisy (unlike my preferred weapon of choice the strat)...I would say at a guess it sounds more like (assuming that you do have your wiring and soldering skills up to scratch that you have a cheap set of pickups which may well have become very microphonic and have lost their power....your best bet may be to beg borrow or steal a spare pick up and wire it in...if it works ok then you'll have to go for new pickups (i'd recommend EMG's or Seymour Duncan's) if not then you could some new pots and selector switches along with new wires for the lot.....failing this take it to a Luthier for a good ol' overhaul and he'll set it straight.....if you want more info repost with some more exact details and i'll be of as much help as i can!