Gibson ES347 style wiring diagram

chubbsdarcy

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Hi, I’m looking for a wiring diagram like my old Gibson ES347 with two volume pots , two tone pots, a 3 way pickup selector switch and a 2 way coil split switch. I expect I’ll get numerous suggestions to wire my coil splits to push/pull pots on each volume control or tone control, but I have my reasons for wanting to put the coil split onto its own switch. The fact is if I can find a wiring diagram like that on the ES347 which would allow me to do this I would then replace that switch with a no load tone pot and have it wired up for the “spin a split” mod to allow me to dial in or dial out as much or how little of the adjustable coil of each humbucker as I wish.
looking forward to hearing what you guys think, thanks!
 
Welcome to the forum!

Do you want the one switch to split the coils of both pickups? They are both 4 conductor pickups?
 
The 347 had one switch to split both pups. If you're going to do spin a split, you'll need one pot for each pup.
 
If I can trust my memory, the in between with both pickups split was quite nice, a bit hollow, good for rockabilly. I did a lot of fooling around with spin a split, but was always a bit disappointing. It sounded best a certain point, where it wasn't a humbucker anymore but was not to thin as a single coil.
So at the last wirings I used a pot until I found the sweet point and changed it to a fixed resistor like PRS does
With a DP3T switch you could get humbucker, a fixed resistor and single coil.
 
^ Very good suggestion.
I think that would end up being much more useful that keeping a spin-a-split...easier to use and more consistent than trying to find the sweet spot each time you want it.
 
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