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Despite having tinkered with and rewired many guitars for over a decade my knowledge of resistors is still very basic and I would welcome assistance in a wiring idea I am trying to put together for someone.
Guitar is a mid range Washburn that came stock with a 59 in the neck and a custom custom in the bridge. Stock controls are 2 vol and 2 VCC controls which graduate pups between series and parallel wiring. All 4 pots are coming out and being replaced by CTS 500k push pulls with the usual 2 vol 2 tone arrangement, However owner has got used to not having tone controls so the neck tone control push pull will by pass both tones when up. He also wants to keep series /parallel options on both pups. No problem . My possible difficulty is with the final push pull which he wants to put both pups into partial coil cut. PRS and Ibanez have made this very fashionable of late. The idea is that this will occur only when the pups are in parallel mode so combo options will be full bridge humbucker in series with either parallel or partial cut neck or vice versa., plus of course the 3 single pup options.
After a bit of head scratching and doodling I have an idea for the wiring which may work if it's possible to do the partial coil cut by grounding only the cut coil to be partially cut through the resistor.. To clarify what I mean see Figs1 and 2 below. Fig 1 is the usual way of doing partial coil cut but if Fig 2 also works so will my wiring idea. This ,in very simplified form is shown in Fig 3. Apologies for the poor quality of the drawings but I hope the idea is clear..
Guitar is a mid range Washburn that came stock with a 59 in the neck and a custom custom in the bridge. Stock controls are 2 vol and 2 VCC controls which graduate pups between series and parallel wiring. All 4 pots are coming out and being replaced by CTS 500k push pulls with the usual 2 vol 2 tone arrangement, However owner has got used to not having tone controls so the neck tone control push pull will by pass both tones when up. He also wants to keep series /parallel options on both pups. No problem . My possible difficulty is with the final push pull which he wants to put both pups into partial coil cut. PRS and Ibanez have made this very fashionable of late. The idea is that this will occur only when the pups are in parallel mode so combo options will be full bridge humbucker in series with either parallel or partial cut neck or vice versa., plus of course the 3 single pup options.
After a bit of head scratching and doodling I have an idea for the wiring which may work if it's possible to do the partial coil cut by grounding only the cut coil to be partially cut through the resistor.. To clarify what I mean see Figs1 and 2 below. Fig 1 is the usual way of doing partial coil cut but if Fig 2 also works so will my wiring idea. This ,in very simplified form is shown in Fig 3. Apologies for the poor quality of the drawings but I hope the idea is clear..
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