First post, sorry for the length, but I just want to be sure I’m thinking correctly.
Wiring gurus, please help:
From an online thread I have gotten a great HSS diagram to help me add a Seymour Duncan Black Winter pickup to my MIM Fender Player HSS, which will give me a push/pull bridge split and a push/pull add neck. The Fender has a North neck pickup and a South RWRP middle pickup, It seems that by following the schematic verbatim I will retain my auto-split in position 2 for the split-bridge+middle, while retaining the typical hum canceling parallel relationship, just like stock.
Unlike stock though, the current split is to the outer coil on the stock Shawbucker (with the evidently rare South slug inner coil, North screw outer coil). I want to split to the outer coil (like stock) in position 2 with the Seymour Duncan. With the Seymour Duncan being the traditional North-slug inner, South-screw outer, can I just flip it 180 degrees and get my desired result, retaining hum-canceling parallel with the middle pickup, or will it require a different wiring? Coincidentally, the wires on this Seymour Duncan come out of the “wrong” side of the pickup on this model for some reason, and if I believed in kismet it would give me my answer-that the universe is telling me to just flip the pickup.
So ultimately my question is:
Can I follow this attached diagram as it’s shown and achieve traditional Strat-style parallel hum-canceling in pos 2 with an outer coil split by simply physically flipping the Black Winter 180 degrees, and of course using SD’s color coding instead of the Bareknuckle/Peavey coding the schematic was drawn for? Lastly, will flipping the pickup 180 degrees severely affect its performance? Having never heard a Black Winter in this guitar I wouldn’t have any way to notice any subtle differences from traditional orientation, but if it is just ill-advised because of a coil mismatch please advise me.
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Wiring gurus, please help:
From an online thread I have gotten a great HSS diagram to help me add a Seymour Duncan Black Winter pickup to my MIM Fender Player HSS, which will give me a push/pull bridge split and a push/pull add neck. The Fender has a North neck pickup and a South RWRP middle pickup, It seems that by following the schematic verbatim I will retain my auto-split in position 2 for the split-bridge+middle, while retaining the typical hum canceling parallel relationship, just like stock.
Unlike stock though, the current split is to the outer coil on the stock Shawbucker (with the evidently rare South slug inner coil, North screw outer coil). I want to split to the outer coil (like stock) in position 2 with the Seymour Duncan. With the Seymour Duncan being the traditional North-slug inner, South-screw outer, can I just flip it 180 degrees and get my desired result, retaining hum-canceling parallel with the middle pickup, or will it require a different wiring? Coincidentally, the wires on this Seymour Duncan come out of the “wrong” side of the pickup on this model for some reason, and if I believed in kismet it would give me my answer-that the universe is telling me to just flip the pickup.
So ultimately my question is:
Can I follow this attached diagram as it’s shown and achieve traditional Strat-style parallel hum-canceling in pos 2 with an outer coil split by simply physically flipping the Black Winter 180 degrees, and of course using SD’s color coding instead of the Bareknuckle/Peavey coding the schematic was drawn for? Lastly, will flipping the pickup 180 degrees severely affect its performance? Having never heard a Black Winter in this guitar I wouldn’t have any way to notice any subtle differences from traditional orientation, but if it is just ill-advised because of a coil mismatch please advise me.
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