Diagram help: 2H 1V 1 on-on toggle (split) 1T push-pull switch coils, 3 way blade

Awesome stuff. I think we're on the same page now. Thank you so much for helping me decipher this. I definitely have enough info to do the re-wiring and I'll post an update when I do. Hopefully I can create a diagram too to share for future googlers.

Cool. Thanks for your patience. I had forgotten that you had previously posted some notes about the original wiring in your guitar.

i also want to go back and compare your notes against the diagram I found w PRS wire code colors and try to make sense out of it.
 
Cool. Thanks for your patience. I had forgotten that you had previously posted some notes about the original wiring in your guitar.

i also want to go back and compare your notes against the diagram I found w PRS wire code colors and try to make sense out of it.

No thank YOU! You've fulfilled the archetype for me of a shadowly benevolent internet forum wizard who thanklessly helps people with super specific issues in niche hobbies. When people like you do what you're doing for me I try to pay it forward by lurking on tech support subreddits helping people with computer issues. Haha.

From what I can tell, that PRS wiring diagram you posted is exactly how m guitar is wired, except that the pair of wires going to the on/on switch (to be split) is opposite between the neck and bridge (i.e. on my guitar, it's red and black going to split, but on your last diagram it's green+white, and vis versa for bridge pickup), and on that diagram the hot and finish (edit: not ground, finish) of the neck are wired into a phase switch instead of going to the selector/ground respectively.
 
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I did my re-wire last night. holy hooch, I really suck at soldering! Also I learned a valuable lesson about using solid core wire instead of stranded.... never again. everything went reasonably well though. I accidentally wired my tone pot switch upside down, and I also have a short somewhere that keeps grounding the bridge pickup, so I have to vigorously knock the tone knob to and from the 0 position. I'll fix both of those things tonight or saturday.

It wasn't complicated for me to execute at all. detach series joint, solder extension wire, solder to on/on switch, wire on/on switch to tone switch, wire tone switch to blade selector, and move the pole the ground was on, and rinse/repeat for other pickup. I still want to make a wiring diagram because this is something that high school me would have been apt to do and he needed wiring diagrams (edit: just realized this comment is ironic in the responses of a post where I'm asking for diagrams. I ended up not needing to reference one while doing the wiring, it was in my head LOL). When I do I'll post it here.

It is awesome. Having the coil split activated with a toggle switch feels way better, and being able to use the neck single coil right under the octave harmonic is amazing. There's definitely a tonal difference between the outers/inners. Thanks for your help! :headbang:
 
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I re-wired the tone pot switch right-side-up last night, which also resolved whatever ground-shorting issue I had. It's perfect and does exactly what it's supposed to! I love it.

I made a Diagram in Visio. it's rough because it's just colored lines at right angles, but it's usable because one can just trace each wire from each component. Hope this helps someone in the future. Cheers!

the cluttered joining of all the ground wires is a great metaphor for my soldering work. :)
 

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