Blower Switch help - a bit convoluted....

[MoogOnBass]

Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster!

I have an idea for implementing a blower switch in my tele which is a little bit off the wall, so I need the brains trust to steer me right.

A bit of background: I play single channel amps and use the volume pot for the whole clean-to-mean thing. Recently I installed a blower switch in HSS strat on a separate mini switch so that the bridge humbucker gets routed directly to the output ack regardless of the switch/vol/tone settings. This works great and got me thinking about adding one to my main guitar, but wondering if I could do it wihtout adding a separate mini switch...

My tele has a tele neck pup and a single-coil sized rail 'bucker in the bridge, single volume pot and a 3-way toggle switch. My thinking is I would like the controls to work normally, but if I then switch to another 'mode', then when the bridge pup is selected it would be direct to the output jack, whilst retaining normal operation in the neck and middle positions.

I'm thinking it could be done using a push/push on the volume pot to select the 'mode' and using a Dimarzio EP1111 for the 3-way. Here's what I've got so far:



Could this work??

Cheers
Moog

 

[beaubrummels]

To me it looks like only the blower goes to the output jack, and the blower won't work when you're on the neck position.

 

[MoogOnBass]

To me it looks like only the blower goes to the output jack, and the blower won't work when you're on the neck position.

Apologies - should have stated that the Volume pot will be connected to the output jack as per normal and the pickups grounded normally etc. Have updated the image.

 

[beaubrummels]

FWIW It's not really a blower. Right now, to me it looks like what it will do is take the bridge off the volume control in the bridge position and put it back on the volume control in the middle and neck positions (depending on how that switch actually internally works). Is that what you intend it to do?

 

[MoogOnBass]

FWIW It's not really a blower. Right now, to me it looks like what it will do is take the bridge off the volume control in the bridge position and put it back on the volume control in the middle and neck positions (depending on how that switch actually internally works). Is that what you intend it to do?

The idea is that in the first 'mode' (BH1) all positions connect to the volume pot. In the BH2 mode, Neck and Middle positions go to the Volume pot and the Bridge goes directly to the output jack, bypassing the volume.

My understanding is the switch works like this:

 

[beaubrummels]

You should take BH2 off the big switch and wire it directly to the output jack.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Seems needlessly complicated IMO. You don't need a fancy switch, just one side of a regular DPDT push-pull (EDIT: or push--push) volume pot.
Bridge hot connected to center lug. Lower lug goes to the pickup switch; upper lug goes straight to the jack.

 

[Artie]

I think this is an interesting idea. But you need one slight mod to your diagram, or the bridge will be "on" in the neck position. Like this:

 

[beaubrummels]

I think this is an interesting idea. But you need one slight mod to your diagram, or the bridge will be "on" in the neck position. Like this:

Still not quite there. His goal was: " In the BH2 mode, Neck and Middle positions go to the Volume pot and the Bridge goes directly to the output jack, bypassing the volume."

Personally, this all could be achieved with a normal 3-way and a blower switch direct to the jack.

 

[Artie]

Still not quite there. His goal was: " In the BH2 mode, Neck and Middle positions go to the Volume pot and the Bridge goes directly to the output jack, bypassing the volume."

I interpreted it differently. He said:

My thinking is I would like the controls to work normally, but if I then switch to another 'mode', then when the bridge pup is selected it would be direct to the output jack, whilst retaining normal operation in the neck and middle positions.

So, in the middle position, he still wants the bridge to go through the volume pot. Hopefully, he will clarify this.