HSH wiring help needed!

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Hello all

I am in the process of building an HSH Strat and am looking for some advice regarding wiring. I want to be able to coil split the humbuckers independently of each other but the cavity is too shallow to accommodate push-pull pots, so I am thinking of installing two on/on mini toggle switches above the pots to split each one. I would also like the bridge humbucker to always be on regardless of what the 5 way switch is selecting, dialled in by it’s own volume pot. So the three pots would be master volume / master tone / bridge volume. Does all this make sense? I am horrible at figuring out wiring so can’t even tell if what I am thinking is possible. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[GuitarDoc]

Welcome to the forum.
Certainly what you are wanting is possible. You could use DPDT (on-on), SPDT (on-on), or SPST (on-off) mini switches. The mini switches would be wired just like the p/p with the "pole" (red + white wire) connecting the "throw" (which is connected to ground) in the "up" position. If you want the bridge pup to be on all the time, just wire it directly to its vol pot and output jack and bypass the selector switch. The neck and middle pups would be connected to the switch as usual.
Position 1 would be bridge pup only.
Position 2 and 3 would be the same...bridge + middle.
Position 4 would be all 3 pups.
Position 5 would be bridge + neck.

However, you could wire the switch to get different combinations if you like.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

Gibson brand push pulls are just a tad shallower than either the CTS or the Bournes / Fleor type. They are SPST (on-off only) which is fine, but you'll need one for each pickup you want to coil split and each pickup coil split will need its own push-pull. You can't wire two pickups to two halves of the same push-pull and coil split both at once. Unless you're a wiring guru you won't be able to use them for more elaborate switching options either.

The major downside, however, is that they're about 25 bucks each.

 

[ThreeChordWonder]

One other idea to think about is using a five way superswitch. You can wire this to auto coil split in P2 and P4 by soldering the "middle" pickup wires to the P2 and P4 lugs on their own bank of contacts, then grounding the common lug on that bank of contacts. Wire the other banks for standard strat wiring.