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  • Gutar wiring with coil-split, series/parallel AND pickup selection?

    Howdy, again,

    I'm discussing the idea of modding a friend's Washburn RX50 guitar with him. The stock guitar is wired as a 3VT. The first idea was to mod it to a split-3VT, that is, with a push-pull that'd switch both humbuckers into single-coils by shunting the inner coil of each pickup into ground. That's not a problem, as I'd recently restored a friend's Schecter C-1 Exotic to that state after his push-pull pot broke (the pot shaft snapped clean off and the knob'd actually come off ). So that schematic looks like this.



    Here's where it gets tricky: I also had the idea of having another push-pull pot that'd also switch the pickups' relation between parallel and series mode (that is, not pickups internally, but pickups in-between each other). So in the end, the guitar could have:
    • a simultaneous coil-splitter
    • a series/parallel switch that
    • a functioning 3-way selector
    • standard volume and tone


    Can the extra S/P switch be added using a DPDT on-on switch or is it an unreasonable question?
    Last edited by Stealth; 09-11-2012, 08:25 PM.
    Pickup prototype checklist: [x] FR4 [x] Cu AWG 42 [x] Neo magnets [x] Willpower [ ] Time - Winding suspended due to exams.

    Originally posted by David Schwab
    Then you have neos... which is a fuzzy bunny wrapped in barbed wire.

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    Did more research - and it can be done. I'll post the how when I find the time to redraw.
    Pickup prototype checklist: [x] FR4 [x] Cu AWG 42 [x] Neo magnets [x] Willpower [ ] Time - Winding suspended due to exams.

    Originally posted by David Schwab
    Then you have neos... which is a fuzzy bunny wrapped in barbed wire.

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    • #3
      Took a while, here's the completed wiring. Feel free to use.

      Pickup prototype checklist: [x] FR4 [x] Cu AWG 42 [x] Neo magnets [x] Willpower [ ] Time - Winding suspended due to exams.

      Originally posted by David Schwab
      Then you have neos... which is a fuzzy bunny wrapped in barbed wire.

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