Zed A. Shaw, Painter

I've been rewiring my guitar to fix the orientation of the pickups so that they actually do hum canceling. No idea why but they wired the neck humbucker backwards. That's the only explanation, so I had to take the 4 conductor wire and reverse it. However, thread time:

So I pull the wires and start working out how to redo them, which basically involves flipping what is the output wire, what 2 wires becomes the coil tap (sent to ground), and what becomes the new ground. I have to diagram the shit out of this to figure it out.

Basically, they set the wiring so that the default wiring taps (disables) the wrong coil in a humbucker. If you tap the wrong one then you don't get it set with other coils that are inverted polarity. How do you know they're inverted/opposite polarity? You stick them on.

You can use fancy tools, but you just take the coil you want to pair, and touch it to the other one. If they stick they're magnets so they're reversed/inverted/opposite. If they repel then they're the same polarity. Ok, why does this matter? Electricity is a demon.