H/S/S wiring HELP please.

[gizza]

Hi All,
First, let me thank all of you,who take the time to offer up
your expertise and insight for us to learn.
I know very little about pickups and wiring,but most of what i know I learnt here in this forum,So thanks heaps dudes.
I am building my first H/S/S, 1 tone,1volume.
(my first of any config for that matter...and trying to keep it simple)
Neck~SSL-5/ Middle~SSL-5 RW/RP/ Bridge~Custom custom.
With 5way switch,what i'm after is
Position #1 neck
#2 neck/middle (hum cancelled)
#3 middle
#4 middle/screw coil split (hum cancelled)
#5 full humbucker
I can't seem to find a schematic, I've looked at seymours
H/S/S,1 tone,1 volume, but the Humbucker is not split in that diagram.
I am hoping someone can direct me to a diagram for this combo.
Thanks again.

 

[Artie]

Re: H/S/S wiring HELP please.

Hey Gizza; This one is pretty simple. I'm just heading out the door, so don't have time to draw a custom diagram, but you shouldn't need one. Just use a combo of two different diagrams. Wire the neck and middle like this:

hum_sing_sing_1vol_1tone_5w

Then wire the bridge like this, with a simple change:

hum_sing_hum_vol_tone_spl

You obviously won't have that neck red/white wire, so ignore that. On the right-hand side of the switch, take that little ground connection and jumper it over to the bridge's black wire instead.

Thats it. Let us know if thats not not clear. We'll get it.

Artie

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: H/S/S wiring HELP please.

Artie's approach works fine, but here's a slightly different take. Start with hum/sing/sing, vol, tone w/ split, except subsitute the humbucker's wires as follows:

green -> white to ground (along w/ bare wire)
red -> black connect to green & "right" side of switch
white -> green (connect to black on switch)
black -> red connect to "top left" of switch (hot output)

This approach actually grounds out the slug coil instead of shorting it but still leaving it in the circuit.

Also, it is important to have a "normal" Seymour Duncan single coil in the neck and a RW/RP single coil in the middle. (A "normal" single coil is humcancelling with the slug coil and RW/RP is humcancelling with the screw coil.)

FWIW the screw coil/middle combination sounds more like a traditional strat to my ears than using the slug coil. Obviously, most people wire it the other way.

Chip

 

[gizza]

Re: H/S/S wiring HELP please.

Thanks guys,
I think I will go with artie's idea as it seems the simplest.
Chip ,I will keep a copy of your's for future reference.
THANKS again