Hello everyone!
I'm really looking forward into modding my washburn x-40 guitar. What I want to do is change its pickups and add a 2-way toggle switch for changing the humbuckers between series & parallel.
The guitar has the following specs:
Construction: bolt-on
Body: basswood
Neck: maple
Fingerboard: rosewood
Scale: 25,5"
Frets: 24
Bridge: Schaller Floyd Rose
Tuners: Grover
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Head Hunter EL921,EL922,EL923
Controls: 5-Way Switch, 1 volume, 1 tone
Year: 2004
I was looking at Seymour Duncan pickups for an HSH configuration, focused on versatility and bright sound, so for the moment I'm inclined for these pickups:
Neck: SH-6n Distortion
Middle: SL59-1b Little '59 for Strat
Bridge: SH-6b Distortion
But any recommendations on pickups would be really helpful!
For the 5-way switch blade I would like to keep the default:
Pos 1. Neck HB
Pos 2. Neck HB + Middle SC
Pos 3. Middle SC
Pos 4. Bridge HB + Middle SC
Pos 5. Bridge HB
And the extra mod would be the 2-way toggle that changes the Humbuckers between series and parallel.
Is it possible? Could anyone help me with the wiring diagram?
Also, I think the current pickups on the guitar only have 2 conductor cables (not sure, haven't removed them yet), the modern ones are 4 conductors... So would I need to change all the electronics?
This is my first hands-on project on guitar and I'm really motivated to do it, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance to anyone taking the time to read!
I'm really looking forward into modding my washburn x-40 guitar. What I want to do is change its pickups and add a 2-way toggle switch for changing the humbuckers between series & parallel.
The guitar has the following specs:
Construction: bolt-on
Body: basswood
Neck: maple
Fingerboard: rosewood
Scale: 25,5"
Frets: 24
Bridge: Schaller Floyd Rose
Tuners: Grover
Pickups: Seymour Duncan Head Hunter EL921,EL922,EL923
Controls: 5-Way Switch, 1 volume, 1 tone
Year: 2004
I was looking at Seymour Duncan pickups for an HSH configuration, focused on versatility and bright sound, so for the moment I'm inclined for these pickups:
Neck: SH-6n Distortion
Middle: SL59-1b Little '59 for Strat
Bridge: SH-6b Distortion
But any recommendations on pickups would be really helpful!
For the 5-way switch blade I would like to keep the default:
Pos 1. Neck HB
Pos 2. Neck HB + Middle SC
Pos 3. Middle SC
Pos 4. Bridge HB + Middle SC
Pos 5. Bridge HB
And the extra mod would be the 2-way toggle that changes the Humbuckers between series and parallel.
Is it possible? Could anyone help me with the wiring diagram?
Also, I think the current pickups on the guitar only have 2 conductor cables (not sure, haven't removed them yet), the modern ones are 4 conductors... So would I need to change all the electronics?
This is my first hands-on project on guitar and I'm really motivated to do it, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance to anyone taking the time to read!
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