A single Vintage rails pickup (Strat) wired for maximum tonal variety question

[T Finn]

I am planning a guitar with just one Vintage Rails PU at neck, 1 tone and 1 volume pot and would like to wire a DiMarzio EP1112 5-Way Multipole Pickup Selector Switch to select all possible tones - (humbucking, split coils, in-phase, out-of-phase, single coil). Would like to do this without toggle or push/pull pots.

Any ideas? Is this possible with just the one switch? Did I list all the variations?


Thanks

New to pickup wiring.

[hermetico]

Re: A single Vintage rails pickup (Strat) wired for maximum tonal variety question

I am sorry but, I think your project makes not so much sense.
The Vintage Rails are very weak pickups, just like a single coil that is using the trick of two coils to make it hum cancelling
If you split a single coil you are getting really nothing usefull at the end.
They are wired in parallel by default. Wired in series has just a hair more output but looses the single coil character without reaching the humbucker character.

IMHO, you should choose a real humbucker or a single-sized hotter humbucker.

To also cover out-of-phase options, you better go for a high output humbucker!.

This can help you to "list the combos":

http://hermeticoguitar.blogspot.com....y-part-07.html

[GuitarDoc]

Re: A single Vintage rails pickup (Strat) wired for maximum tonal variety question

+1. Doesn't make any sense to run the Vintage Rail anyway othere than stock.

Like Hermetico said, best to use a single-sized humbucker then you can play around with series/split/parallel/oop wiring.