Re: anyone got exotic wiring mods on their axe?
You rang?
Almost every guitar I own has some sort of custom wiring. The name of the game for me is versatility, so I like my guitars to be able to cover a lot of ground tonally. I also prefer my guitars to look stock, so I use push-pulls and other tricks.
#1 Strat (HSS): standard 5-way, master volume, neck and middle tone, bridge tone. The neck and middle tone has a push-pull to engage the bridge pickup in parallel, allowing neck/bridge and all three pickups. The bridge tone has a push-pull to switch the JB in the bridge from series to parallel.
Canadacaster (S/miniH Tele): standard three-way, master volume, stacked concentric tone (neck tone bottom, bridge tone top). The bridge pup is a Tele Hot Stack (great pickup btw), and the volume is a push/pull to switch it between series (hot and fat Tele tone) and parallel (closer to a classic Tele tone).
GRP Warmoth LP (99.9% complete!): The cool thing here is the Superswitch that does the following:
1: neck humbucker in series
2: neck screw coil and bridge stud coil in series (fat like a humbucker, very cool non-standard tone)
3: neck stud coil and bridge screw coil in parallel (sounds like a Tele middle position)
4: bridge humbucker in parallel (single coil tone)
5: bridge humbucker in series
Notice that all of the above are hum free. Lately I prefer to use series/parallel switches on humbuckers instead of series/split. You get an almost identical tone, but no hum.
The GRP currently has a six-position rotary tone switch, but a. it works intermittently, and b. when it does work, it's not that impressive. I'm going to change it to a G&L treble tone/bass tone setup and use the rotary switch somewhere else.
