although they only use 4 different colors, Green, White, Red and Black most of the time, the order each company uses can differ, and some comepanies even use blue instead of green, or yellow instead of white, and other combinations as well. Humbuckers that only have 2 wires they just join the two pickups togheter, and cut the wires off close to the pickups, and use that tape to cover it up, so you only have a hot and cold wire to deal with, and the bare wire. Oh on a side note, one pickup is usually a north polled charge, and the opposite, south polled charge. Put both of those on a plate, so they share the same space, and you'll want to ground the plate too that's where the bare wire comes from.
When you join two of the wires together, what you're actually doing is wiring the pickups in series, just like wiring two batteries together, positive to negative to positive then negative. Then you have the positive and negative for each pickup. The plate holds the ground wire to ground the picups themselves. They mount the two single coils on a plate, then wrap them with the black cloth you see. For humbuckers, they're really 2 single coils, so if they're wired so you can have access to the wires, you get the 4 conductors. For singles they have 2 wires, one positive, one negative(ground). Well, most pickups are single coil or humbuckers. I will check post tomorrow cause its getting late with some more insight. or you will be left with going with bridge, bridge and middle, middle, middle and neck and neck with standard config.If you try to split the bridge with the hum middle you'll get some hum for sure because theirs is no coil to cancel out with in 2nd or 4th position since the middle is a humbucker. you'll need the fender 5 way 4 pole super switch like this STEWMAC.COM : Instructions for Super Switch if you really want to split all the humbuckers.
but this is banking on the middle to be a single coil so when you go to the 2nd switch position that the split bridge and middle are reverse wound and will cancel hum, same thing applies when using4th position middle and split neck. Standard 5 way will give you hum bridge, split bridge and middle, middle, middle and split neck and neck. With this switch you wont be able to split the coils of all the pickups as needed and to work together and cancel hum. the problem with wiring these to a five way switch is you are limited on how they will work with a standard 5 way switch. The hot rails themselves are stacked humbuckers I believe and should have four conductors on them as well.
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