Homemade Diddley Bow Electric Slide Guitar (a la Jack White)

Step 3 Wiring the pickup

When making this guitar, I wired the pickup first before fixing the pickup in place so I could tell where to put it in order to get a good signal. The pickup I used is a DiMarzio Super Distortion humbucker, which has five wires for splitting the coils. Since I wanted to use both coils, I doubled up the wires from each coil. If you have a similar pickup, then refer to the pictures for instructions. Otherwise, I can't help you as I really know don't know much about wiring. Please excuse my poor instructions in this step. Here's what I did:

Black and braided wire - attached to tab on output jack connecting to shaft of the patch cord.

White wire - attached to tab connecting to patch cord tip.

Green and red wire - electrical taped over then taped out of the way.

For the moment, I have not soldered the wires in place. If you just want to wrap the wires around their respective connections, it works fine but is not very permanent.