Doubleneck Tele wiring

[DesmondP]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to wire my double neck Tele with 2 Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound sets and I can't find anything in the forums about it. I have wired it according to the diagram that's attached but I'm not getting the right results here.



This is what happens:

Toggle up 12 string neck select: 3 way switch functions properly.

Toggle middle both necks select: Only the bridge pickup on the 6 string neck functions. No other pickups work.

Toggle down: Bridge and neck dead with blade in neck position. Bridge and neck both active with blade in middle and bridge position.



Obviously, I'm looking for simple 3 way tele functions, Neck/Both/Bridge blade functions and 12 neck/both necks/6 neck, for the 3 way mini toggle functions, one volume, one tone.

The only 3W4P switch that seems to be available...anywhere comes from AxLabs

So that's what I'm using...no other choice. Kinda stuck here.

My brain is kinda scrambled on this so any help would be greatly appreciated!



Thank you!

 

[switchman]

Did you figure this out?

The diagram looks correct to the AxLabs spec, except I'm unsure about the "DP3T". If its standard 3 position On-On-On its a DPDT. The middle position is alternate pairs on either side. This Duncan article explains. If its an On-Off-On you'd have no sound in the middle as drawn.

That doesn't explain the results you're getting though. I would double check that the actual wiring matches whats drawn. Sounds like something mis-wired on the 6 string side.

There is an alternate way to do this using a standard 3 way Tele blade and a DPDT for the 6/12 selector. I'm not sure why you want both necks on at once? I struggle to play one neck at a time

To do that, wire blade, volume, and tone up following a plain vanilla Tele diagram. Then you place the DPDT inline between both pairs of pickups and the blade. So you're using the 6/12 selector to change which pair of pickups is connected to the blade.

 

[DesmondP]

Did you figure this out?

The diagram looks correct to the AxLabs spec, except I'm unsure about the "DP3T". If its standard 3 position On-On-On its a DPDT. The middle position is alternate pairs on either side. This Duncan article explains. If its an On-Off-On you'd have no sound in the middle as drawn.

That doesn't explain the results you're getting though. I would double check that the actual wiring matches whats drawn. Sounds like something mis-wired on the 6 string side.

There is an alternate way to do this using a standard 3 way Tele blade and a DPDT for the 6/12 selector. I'm not sure why you want both necks on at once? I struggle to play one neck at a time

To do that, wire blade, volume, and tone up following a plain vanilla Tele diagram. Then you place the DPDT inline between both pairs of pickups and the blade. So you're using the 6/12 selector to change which pair of pickups is connected to the blade.

Thanks Switchman,

Yep I did figure this out with some help from Dennis Russell here at S.D. and a friend at Warmoth as well.

I had the wires for the 6 neck two lugs out of place on the blade and on the mini toggle I switched the front/bottom lug (6 string neck) to the back/bottom lug and bridged the middle lugs for "both necks on." So...all 3 way blade positions work like a Tele and the mini toggle is,

Up: 12
Middle: both
Down: 6

I also have a middle rout underneath the pick guard if, at some point, I want a Nashville Tele setup which would only mean changing the 3 way superswitch to a Fender 5 way superswitch, installing 2 Secret Agent pickups, and discretely widening out the control cavity under the control plate to make room for more wires as there's barely room for the wires, a mini toggle, and a big (Emerson paper and oil) capacitor, in there now.

Whew...

LOL...yeah, well as for both necks on it helps for faster transitions for songs like say, American Girl by Tom the Great Petty or A Million Miles Away by the Plimsouls...Blaze of Glory...Bon Jovi...all that stuff.

Cheers my friend and thank you for your response!

 

[switchman]

Awesome happy to hear it worked out