I'll start off by saying I'm new here as a poster although I've been reading for quite a while and have learned lots of things. Used to post on occasion over at the Fender FDP forums. Finding myself doing a lot more wiring work during the pandemic and I've come across some wiring I just haven't been able to find a good diagram for.
Here's the details:
HSH guitar with 1 vol, 1 tone and 3 mini toggles. I found some SSH ones that were close and helped with ideas, but mini toggles don’t seem to be a popular option as most like the 5 way or superswitch.
Reason for toggles is the body - it's a rear routed no pickguard body with 2 larger holes for the volume and tone and 3 smaller holes for switches. It’s something I don’t have on any other guitar and should be very versatile for recording type situations. It also feels very 80s super strat.
Sort of going for the strat/tele/lp-like sounds in one guitar.
Pickups:
Neck: single coil size dual blade hb, 8.24k. I think it matches GFS wire colors- like a Duncan but with N and S flipped. N and S. South coil Black +, white -, north coil green + red -
Middle: generic strat pickup. Attracts with an RWRP MIM strat middle pickup, as well as slug coil of fender or Duncan HBs -leading me to believe it is South polarity Black hot, white negative. 6.2k
Bridge: Duncan Designed detonator hb 108b 16.47k
North coil white +, black -
South coil green +, red –
Black and bare seem to already be combined and not easily separated – this is how it came. This is what I got with multimeter testing; the north coil seems to have the start and finish reversed from the color diagrams I've found. I'm thinking I'm being thrown off by thinking that start is positive and finish is negative, and I'm not sure that is always true.
Controls:
Master vol and tone. Both 500k pots. 0.022uf cap. One or both pots can be push/pull if needed
3 toggle switches:2x dpdt on/off/on (neck/bridge)and 1 on/on dpdt (mid)(flexible here – if there's something to be gained with a 3 way for the middle, or I need a different type – these are just what I currently have set aside for this project)- For individual pickup selection and split to north coil of neck and bridg
Pickup combos I'm looking for(all parallel):
Bridge full
Bridge split
Bridge split with mid
Mid
Mid with neck split
Neck full
Neck split
Neck and bridge full in phase -related to below. I have learned if it’s wrong, just need to change the hot and ground wire on one pickup.
Neck and bridge split – this would require splitting one to south instead of north for hum cancelling, correct? Can I fix this with coil select on a push/pull? And is there a difference doing it on bridge or neck?
Bonuses: split neck full Bridge, and full neck split bridge (like mid position on a fat tele w/5-way). I’m not sure how useful these are – but it seems like it would be one of the options available with the wiring I’m using.
Any really useful combos/sounds I’m missing? Like series/parallel on the neck and/or bridge?
Any advantages (like simpler wiring) to using a north polarity pickup in the middle? I do have some other strat pickups that might work, although they are lower output, in the 5.1-5.7k range.
Any useful hsh tricks you can suggest are welcome ie resistor in series with the middle pickup so that it sees 250k at the controls, that sort of thing.
Thanks in advance!
Here's the details:
HSH guitar with 1 vol, 1 tone and 3 mini toggles. I found some SSH ones that were close and helped with ideas, but mini toggles don’t seem to be a popular option as most like the 5 way or superswitch.
Reason for toggles is the body - it's a rear routed no pickguard body with 2 larger holes for the volume and tone and 3 smaller holes for switches. It’s something I don’t have on any other guitar and should be very versatile for recording type situations. It also feels very 80s super strat.
Sort of going for the strat/tele/lp-like sounds in one guitar.
Pickups:
Neck: single coil size dual blade hb, 8.24k. I think it matches GFS wire colors- like a Duncan but with N and S flipped. N and S. South coil Black +, white -, north coil green + red -
Middle: generic strat pickup. Attracts with an RWRP MIM strat middle pickup, as well as slug coil of fender or Duncan HBs -leading me to believe it is South polarity Black hot, white negative. 6.2k
Bridge: Duncan Designed detonator hb 108b 16.47k
North coil white +, black -
South coil green +, red –
Black and bare seem to already be combined and not easily separated – this is how it came. This is what I got with multimeter testing; the north coil seems to have the start and finish reversed from the color diagrams I've found. I'm thinking I'm being thrown off by thinking that start is positive and finish is negative, and I'm not sure that is always true.
Controls:
Master vol and tone. Both 500k pots. 0.022uf cap. One or both pots can be push/pull if needed
3 toggle switches:2x dpdt on/off/on (neck/bridge)and 1 on/on dpdt (mid)(flexible here – if there's something to be gained with a 3 way for the middle, or I need a different type – these are just what I currently have set aside for this project)- For individual pickup selection and split to north coil of neck and bridg
Pickup combos I'm looking for(all parallel):
Bridge full
Bridge split
Bridge split with mid
Mid
Mid with neck split
Neck full
Neck split
Neck and bridge full in phase -related to below. I have learned if it’s wrong, just need to change the hot and ground wire on one pickup.
Neck and bridge split – this would require splitting one to south instead of north for hum cancelling, correct? Can I fix this with coil select on a push/pull? And is there a difference doing it on bridge or neck?
Bonuses: split neck full Bridge, and full neck split bridge (like mid position on a fat tele w/5-way). I’m not sure how useful these are – but it seems like it would be one of the options available with the wiring I’m using.
Any really useful combos/sounds I’m missing? Like series/parallel on the neck and/or bridge?
Any advantages (like simpler wiring) to using a north polarity pickup in the middle? I do have some other strat pickups that might work, although they are lower output, in the 5.1-5.7k range.
Any useful hsh tricks you can suggest are welcome ie resistor in series with the middle pickup so that it sees 250k at the controls, that sort of thing.
Thanks in advance!
