H-S-S Pickup Wiring

[Jpoole03]

So I’m currently working on my first guitar build, and I’m entering the final stages as I’m working on my pick guard wiring on my own version of a Frankenstein Stratocaster. I have a Seymour Duncan CS Frankenstsien pup in the bridge and I want that to be on one single 500K volume pot (no tone), but I also want to have the ability to split that Humbucker into a single coil and lower it to a 250K pot (what I want my single coils to be) all at the same time. I want the ablibilty to take my guitar and also make it sound more like an all single coil strat for more versatility. So my question is, can I find a volume pot that does that, such as a push/pull, or is this even possible to split a Humbucker into a single coil without using it with another pickup? I plan on having three controls, one volume and two 250K tones for the single coils, with a 5-way switch.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: H-S-S Pickup Wiring

First of all, you have a HSS guitar with 1 250k vol and 2 tones, and you want your humbucker to be on a 500k vol pot (without tone), then split and go to the 250k vol pot?

That means your guitar is going to end up with 2 vol pots and 2 tone pots! Is this what you want? If so, yes you can do this with a p/p pot. Otherwise you'll need to convert one of your tone pots to a vol pot and end up with 2 vol pots (1 250k and 1 500k) and 1 master tone pot with one of the three pots being a p/p.

 

[Jpoole03]

Re: H-S-S Pickup Wiring

Yes this is exactly what I’m wanting, I only want three controls. If I have convert one into a a volume instead of a tone that’s fine, but whenever I push or pull that pot to make it 250K, can I also convert that Humbucker into a single coil at the same time? Or am I just making stuff up? Also what type of push/pull pot do I need for this?

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: H-S-S Pickup Wiring

Yes you can do the split and the change to a 250k vol pot with one p/p pot.

https://www.amazon.com/Kmise-A0379-...549264279&sr=8-3&keywords=alpha+push+pull+pot

One side of the pot will accomplish the split, and the other side will direct the signal to a 250k vol pot and tone pot.

 

[Jpoole03]

Re: H-S-S Pickup Wiring

Awesome, thank you!