Wireing bass pickup

[John Haldane]

HI
I have been given a short scale ( Maya) Bass in bits, as one pickup with 3 wire's red,white and black, 1 volume and 1 tone pot,can any one help with putting it back together please.
Take care
John H

[Charlie Hall]

Hi John,
The Fender American Precision Bass diagram should be more or less what you need for the wiring of the volume and tone controls:
www.fender.com/support/diagrams/pdf_temp1/basses/0192200_02A/SD0192200_02APg2.pdf
As for the pickup wires, my guess is that the white wire is the signal, and the red and black wires join together for earth, if the pickup has a metal casing. If not, it is anyone's guess as to what the wires are for. If you have a multimeter set to something like the 20Kohms range it would help to identify which are the pickup coils wires. The pickup coils wires might read somewhere in the region of 6Kohms but could also vary quite a lot from that figure.
Regards,
Charlie

[John Haldane]

Thanks Charlie,
Will let you know how I get on .
Take care
John H