There are tons of Ibanez/Seymour Duncan HH 5 way switching posts, but after reading through lots of them, most seem to be incomplete. Most posts address one aspect but ignore others and are usually abandoned. Rather than piece together a spider web of threads I thought I'd consolidate what I've found, ask a few questions, and hopefully clarify stuff for a lot of folks.
Here's my situation...and I'm obviously a novice. I'm building an HH guitar with one volume and one tone pot. The pickups are the Jazz in the neck and JB in the bridge. I want to achieve Ibanez's standard HH switching per their diagram below. Based on everything I've read this switching is unique to Ibanez and the quickest way to achieve it is to use their 5-way switch, pictured below. For Seymour Duncans to work with the switch one humbucker magnet needs to be flipped and then the hot and ground reversed.
Question, I understand how to flip the magnet, and understand it can be done on either the neck or bridge, but I'm not clear about the flipping the wiring. I've read conflicting posts that say one or the other need to be performed, or both need to be performed. Which is it? Also, below is Duncan translation of the Ibanez configuration that I found, and a snapshot of someone's control cavity. Are these wired properly? I flipped the magnet on my bridge pickup, will the diagram work for me, or is the wiring specific to the neck pickup?
Here are the resources I've found:
Required Ibanez Switch:
Original Ibanez Diagram:
Translated Duncan Diagram:
Control Cavity:
Here's my situation...and I'm obviously a novice. I'm building an HH guitar with one volume and one tone pot. The pickups are the Jazz in the neck and JB in the bridge. I want to achieve Ibanez's standard HH switching per their diagram below. Based on everything I've read this switching is unique to Ibanez and the quickest way to achieve it is to use their 5-way switch, pictured below. For Seymour Duncans to work with the switch one humbucker magnet needs to be flipped and then the hot and ground reversed.
Question, I understand how to flip the magnet, and understand it can be done on either the neck or bridge, but I'm not clear about the flipping the wiring. I've read conflicting posts that say one or the other need to be performed, or both need to be performed. Which is it? Also, below is Duncan translation of the Ibanez configuration that I found, and a snapshot of someone's control cavity. Are these wired properly? I flipped the magnet on my bridge pickup, will the diagram work for me, or is the wiring specific to the neck pickup?
Here are the resources I've found:
Required Ibanez Switch:
Original Ibanez Diagram:
Translated Duncan Diagram:
Control Cavity:
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