Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

[jericho guitars]

Hi all,

Looking to have a Single Pickup, 3-Way Toggle, 1 Volume.

1st Position: Full Humbucker
2nd Position: South Coil Active
3rd Position: No Signal

I think we might have figured it out, but I wanted to ask what you think of this:



Take this and separate the middle

Which makes this:



Then wire it up like this:



The humbucking position is great, the middle position is great, but I am unsure if some people in certain grounding situations might experience some hum, or if its just a small amount of signal that comes through on the 3rd position.

Is this diagram correct? Assume all other components have grounding circuit complete..

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

It looks plausible to me. Im waiting for an expert to weigh in because I may use this exact scheme in a guitar I am currently puting together.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

I dont have a 3-way toggle handy to look at, but the more i think about it the more I am pretty sure it will not work. In the middle position ALL the terminals will be live, which means the signal will be grounded. I believe you will get single/kill/kill, not single/hum/kill.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

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[beaubrummels]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

I dont have a 3-way toggle handy to look at, but the more i think about it the more I am pretty sure it will not work. In the middle position ALL the terminals will be live, which means the signal will be grounded. I believe you will get single/kill/kill, not single/hum/kill.

I think it will work. The two sides of the switch are separate. Normally you have to solder them together to get a middle position.

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

Try it and let us know if it works!

 

[Dave Locher]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

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Vedy nice!

 

[jericho guitars]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

It worked! Check out the "Ignition Series" jerichoguitars.com/ignition

3 way switch & toggle are: Hum // Split // Kill

 

[Gstring]

Re: Help with Single JB // 3-Way Toggle // Coil-Split

That's a cool mod.Thanks for posting.

I did something similar in 2008 . A fun project involving an old steel string acoustic with a Washburn neck HB crudely fitted in the sound hole. Only control was a3 way which gave both coils individually plus HB in parallel. Tone not that subtle but interesting. Your version is improvement.

I later changed the 3 way for an on-on-0n DPDT which gave split/series/parallel. Not a great improvement but a useful experiment. As I like the JB in parallel when played clean I would probably have gone down this route but thats just my opinion.