what size or gauge of wire should I be using to wire volume/tone/pups???

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I've been using 22 or 24 depending on what's available.

thanks for the input...

If you every get a strand of mini or led Christmas lights that quit working your'll have more wire than you'll need for a very long time. 

Old cat5 computer network cable has several twisted pairs of good quality 24g stranded wire inside. The cable from your modem to your computer. Bully your local computer person, tons of it gets disposed of regularly. 

Exactly what I've been using!  Works awesome!

Old Cat5.  That's what I'm using.  Not saying it's right, it's just what I use.  ;)

with only tens of milliamps going through the wire, gauge isn't so important, just as long as you can strip and solder it, it's good enough. 

If 43 gauge is big enough for the juice in the mag-pickup, anything bigger can take that same juice to the pots & jack.

As usual, the answer is...42

you know the answer, you can't know the question... :-)

Canada is metric. The answer would be converted to 86.

I thought 42 in metric was 5.5?

Some of us are far enough out to have trouble seeing the box anymore! 

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