Anyone modified a Triple Shot ring?

Will S-T

Will S-T

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Wanting to install two tapped single coils, one RWRP or two SC sizes HB's and be able
to split or tap each pickup. Will also use a six way rotary switch for all coil combos,
master no-load JackPot vol pot and push-pull master tone with two caps.

I know it's doable with additional switching but would like to house the pickups
and switches in the Triple Shot.

Cheers, Will.
 
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I'm thinking you'd be limited to 2 stacked singles, and would need a 4-pole rotary for sure, with each pickup taking up 2 poles, then feed those 4 commons to the TS. However, at several points along the rotary combined with certain TS switch positions, you're going to have dead air because something will be redundant.

However, the rotary could give you Artie's coil-slutting options with both pickups, as well as various tone-changing circuits on the rotary (varitone, etc.) and the TS could pop you in and out of those with one switch.

I'm not sure splitting a stack will do more than switch between hum-cancelling and vintage, but someone here once pondered if you could maintain vintage single-coil tones from a split stack or true single by doing a coil-swap with the bottom coil of another stack. I never saw the results of that pondering, however, and lost track of the thread.

Then again, if you have 2 4-conductor pickups and only a 4-pole rotary, you've got 8 total pickup leads to deal with (not including the grounds), so a single 4-pole rotary won't give you all available options, nor would a single TS handle both pickups.
 
Re: Anyone modified a Triple Shot ring?

Thanks Doc,

The aim is for the TS's to tap, say two QP's, one RWRP. Then allows the the 4 pole 6 way rotary
to give Bridge, both Series OOP, both series in phase, both parallel OOP, both parallel in phase and neck. Each pickup has a ground and live so the six way should work.

Should give 18 different sounds depending on pickups used, say QP's, strat RWRP bridge
and normal wound strat neck.

Then master tone with two caps, gives 36, plus no-load master volume an extra 36. 72 in total

Cheers
 
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Got the numbers wrong, 36 with two tone caps plus 18 extra with no-load vol pot = 54.
I'd expect not that many would be useable, but it would be interesting.
 
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At that point I have to question putting 2 QPs that close together, as far as how their magnetic fields will get along. I'm thinking massive phase-cancellation at best, and too hot to handle at worst.

Even if each pickup is only 2-con, the TS terminates into 2-con as well, and the most you can do at that point is phase-inversion of the overall setup, so the pickups definitely have to go to the rotary first, then each common pole of the rotary will have to go to the TS.

I'm not entirely sure how to wire the rotary, though. I've done one myself some years ago (5-way 4-pole) with 3 Duncan Jrs and a Classic Stack in a H-H setup with 2 regular rings and got interesting tones, but nothing to launch rockets with.
 
Re: Anyone modified a Triple Shot ring?

Thanks again Doc,

It's just a silly engineering dilemma that's busting my chops on how to modify the TS's to achieve the taps. Just ask Crusty, I have one too many wines and I come up with "what if's"

Modifying the TS's is the crux, the rest will play out, good or bad.
I can always repurpose the guitar, a Tele, with conventional Prails and TS's, Beck style.

Cheers.
 
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