is this wiring plausible?

[shad]

hello folks, I am working on a guitar for a customer who has some pretty unique ideas about how it is going to be wired. I will be the first to admit that I am not a guru at guitar electronics. I can follow a diagram, and I can add in some switching options without to much trouble, but when it comes to complex wiring scemes I get a little lost. this guitar is supposed to have:

master volume/pushpull for neck phase reverse

blend pot

neck tone/ pushpull for neck coil split

bridge tone / push pull for bridge coil split

and then a mini toggle of some sort to switch the pickups from series to parallel with regard to eachother.


the coil tapping and phase reversal are not really problematic, its this series parallel thing that is giving me grief. I have wired switches for the coils of a humbucker to switch from series to parallel, but never for two pickups to be switched between series and parallel and its got me a little stumped. I found this diagram which shows how to do it with a 3 way toggle Series Parallel Master Switch. I assume that this would function in the same way with a blend pot, but the only trouble is that when it is in series mode the selector switch, or in this case the blend pot, is essentially disabled. is there a way to avoid that? I have been racking my brain over this for days now, but I just dont have a good enough understanding of whats involved.

[Stealth]

So you want the blend pot to "survive" the series/parallel switch and still give you the ability to blend tones in either mode?

Here's something cbarrow7625 helped me verify and hook up - it's a two-pickup, series/parallel, independent volume and master tone layout. Click to view.



First, since you know how to swap phases and split coils, do that, and wire individual tones, then proceed to each of the volume pots on my schematic.
Since you want a blend, you need to treat each of the volume pots on my schematic as one deck of a blend pot, and mirror one of them left-to-right so you actually sweep from one pickup to the other. I heartily recommend a proper 250K or 500K blend pot with an M/N taper - that one keeps both pickups at an even mix when it's at the center.

After that you connect the output (dark blue lead on my schematic) to a normal volume pot and out towards the output jack.

Plan this thing well ahead, because you need a total of four switches - a neck in/out-phase, a neck S/P, a bridge S/P and a total S/P. I see you accounted for all that, but choose wisely which switch goes to what pot so you don't end with wiring spaghetti.

Hope this helps.