EWC&Son wrote: I kept the "hots" with the hots and the grounds common (based on the pup wiring identifications), but I know the neck pup (a Golden Age for Tele from StewMac) is RWRP. Would that change the wiring so that the "ground" would become the hot?
Well, there really is no hot and ground in the traditional sense of the words. We arbitrarily choose one side to be ground and the other side to be signal. Generally, pickup manufactures try to stay consistent within their product lines but there's no real standard. But to answer your question, no a RW/RP pickup doesn't change the phase. It's reverse wound (which would change the phase on it's own), and reverse polarity (i.e. magnets are in upside down, and that would change phase on it's own) but together they are the same phase as if they were not RWRP. What you get, though, is noise-cancelling when combined with regular pickup. This is why Strat pickup sets often come with a RWRP center pickup...you get noise canceling and positions 2 & 4 are still in phase. BUT, that's RWRP in relation to the other two. There's no absolute sense of a pickup being RWRP. It's only RWRP compared to another pickup. There is no standard as to which way manufacturers wind their pickups. RWRP compared to a Lollar pickup might not be RWRP compared to a Duncan.
So basically forget about the notion of ground and hot because it's meaningless unless you're using pickups from one manufacturer, and even then sometimes some pickups are backwards just cause. Somewhere I had a list of various pickup manufactures and how they're wired. If I find it, I'll post it here.
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And, I learned some things in the process, so it's all good.