Wiring new Bill Lawrence pickup.

[Bradshaw Pack]

Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong section of the forum. I have a new Bill Lawrence Lxr-16 12 string pickup. I am putting it into a Williams U-12. There are three wires coming out of the pick-up: black, red, and white. There are no instructions for this type of pickup on Bill's site. I want to make sure I get this right. What is the best way to wire this pickup into the guitar.

Thank you very much in advance for helping me out here,

Bradshaw

[Richard Sinkler]

I'm not positive on the black and white, but i think the black goes to ground. The red wire is for wiring a spst switch to switch the pickup from humbucker to single coil. The red wire goes to one side of the switch and run a wire from the other side of the switch to ground. Flipping the switch only uses one of the two coils for the single coil setting and both for humbucker.

[George Macdonald]

Hi Bradshaw, Richard is correct. White wire is hot, black is ground, and you can ignore the red wire, [according to Becky], unless you want to split the coils. I have the same pickup in my 12 string Carter and I just coiled up the red wire and taped it to the underside.

[Richard Sinkler]

Hi Bradshaw, Richard is correct. White wire is hot, black is ground, and you can ignore the red wire, [according to Becky], unless you want to split the coils. I have the same pickup in my 12 string Carter and I just coiled up the red wire and taped it to the underside.

I had the XR16 in a Mullen SD12 I used to have, and in the E9 neck of my Carter. I did wire a switch in each one. The single coil is really nice, but it is really noisy in some venues, so I switch it to humbucker.

[George Macdonald]

Richard,
In the mid 70s Red Rohdes in North Hollywood wired an MSA 12 string for me with a switch to use either single coil or the two together. I never really liked either single coil and used it as a humbucker most of the time. I did use the bright single coil on an album that our Gospel group recorded at that time though when we lived in So. Calif.

I remember seeing Red at the Anaheim convention center playing through two Fender Princeton Reverb amps that he had boosted to about 100 watts each. He was an amazing guy.

[Ron Pruter]

Richard, where did you get your locking collars on your pullers on the Carter? Looks like you have two types. A brass style and a steel type. RP

[John McClung]

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[Richard Sinkler]

Richard, where did you get your locking collars on your pullers on the Carter? Looks like you have two types. A brass style and a steel type. RP

The locking collar style was offered by Bill Lipscome here on the forum. I don't know that he makes them any more. I did my whole E9 neck. Ghe C6 is still the old dog boner system. The brass ones are just on the lever reversing systems.