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Re: Ultimate 40 combination wiring? Apologies for yet another version, previous had battery incorrectly wired. This is hopefully now all in order:

Re: Ultimate 40 combination wiring? I've come to the conclusion the bridge switch to turn on in series, off and on in parallel, using an on-on-on switch is not going to work, so have changed to on, off, split (again using an on-on-on dpdt). See below, any comments or thoughts welcome:

Re: Ultimate 40 combination wiring? Hopefully the attached makes a bit more sense. I've not used standard colours as hoped that by using multicoloured it would make following the wires easier. Any input or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks (BTW the DPDTs are on-on-on)

Re: Ultimate 40 combination wiring? Try again...

Hi there As you’ll see from my activity I’ve not been on here posting for a very long time, however this forum has always been a fantastic resource for the budding modder and I’ve always found the advice from the knowledgeable regular posters to be invaluable. With that in mind I thought I’d...

Hey guys Ok, so I've built a tele type guitar with a strat type pup (Dimarzio) in the neck, tele (Seymour Duncan neck) in the middle, and Dimarzio humbucker in the bridge. It all seems to be wired up ok but though I've wired guitars before successfully I'm really a novice that follows wiring...

Hi all It's an oldie but a goodie - what pickups do I want?! Here's the guitar: Gibson Les Paul Studio with gold pickup covers. Here's the mod: I'm going to use master volume and master tone and the two remaing pots will be spin-a-split to coil split each pickup. Here's the sound I'm looking...

Hi all You may have noticed a post I put about rotary switches on a Les Paul. Well I'm gonna drop that idea and just go for a straight coil split. However before I go for a push/pull I just wondered if anyone had tried the "spin a split" wiring and how good it is? From the the wiring diagrams...

Hi there I currently have a Gibson Les Paul Studio which is great, except I find the pup options a bit limiting. I can get a 5 way rotary selector switch to replace the 3 way selector and I'm hoping to change the standard selection options to: Neck Neck coil split Neck and Bridge Bridge coil...

Hi I'm part way through my first self build (a tele type guitar with noiseless strat neck, noiseless tele middle and hi-output humbucker bridge, one tone, one volume and 3 dpdt on/off/on switches, one for each pickup). All pickups are 4-conductor. Basically for the humbucker I want to choose...

Ok, so I'm building a fender tele type guitar, and want the finish to be 100% original. I'm thinking of either a complete paint respray or maybe putting my own images on the guitar and lacquering over. However, I'm resprayed before but that's it. If I start sticking images to the bodywork I'll...

Hi all After success with my first build earlier this year I'm building the guitar I always wanted to build. It's gonna be a Fender Tele with folyd rose trem and hss pickups with an Ibanez style humbucker, Tele style middle pup and Strat style neck pup. Few questions though... I've got...

Right, I've got all the bits: Gibson Flying V SD Pearly Gates neck SD Custom bridge Push/pull tone pot And I'm ready to setup my guitar. Only problem is I've never done this before and have a few questions: Firstly and most importantly, how on earth do you get the tone and volume knobs off...

Thanks to all your help I've decided to get a Pearly Gates neck and Custom bridge combo for my flying V, and a push/pull pot to go in the tone. I understand this can be used to either select whether the pickups are in series or parrallel or to turn the pickups in single coils from humbuckers...

I've just bought a new Gibson Flying V that I'm replacing the pickups on. I understandsome pickups can be wired so they're in series/parrallel or you can use them a separate singles as well as humbuckers. Does anyone know whether it's possible on a flying v and if so how? Sorry, I'm a bit of a...