Installing Seymour Duncan humbuckers into a Gibson that has CTs SPST CTS push pulls..

[LEOVAN83]

What a nightmare.

So this friend of mine just bought a Gibson Signature T (or something like that) that has individual coil tap (or split or whatever) for each pickup, with a CTS SPST push/pull pot on each volume control.

Here's the situation...

I need to control the coil splitting with just ONE push pull, bypass the tone controls and that's it. Is it possible with these SPST CTS's?

If not, I could just keep it as it was but still we want to bypass the tone, so in case option #1 (master push/pull for both pickups to split) fails, how should I wire the CTS SPST p/p's so they go straight into the jack and bypass the tone pots?

Thanks so much!!

 

[LEOVAN83]

Re: Installing Seymour Duncan humbuckers into a Gibson that has CTs SPST CTS push pul

What a nightmare.

So this friend of mine just bought a Gibson Signature T (or something like that) that has individual coil tap (or split or whatever) for each pickup, with a CTS SPST push/pull pot on each volume control.

Here's the situation...

I need to control the coil splitting with just ONE push pull, bypass the tone controls and that's it. Is it possible with these SPST CTS's?

If not, I could just keep it as it was but still we want to bypass the tone, so in case option #1 (master push/pull for both pickups to split) fails, how should I wire the CTS SPST p/p's so they go straight into the jack and bypass the tone pots?

Thanks so much!!

Man, I've been up all night... the idea of using SPST p/p's sucks! why didn't they just use a DPDT p/p as usual, in just one knob! I gave up on the master coil split since apparently the SPST CTS's don't work that way so I went back to wire the thing up as it was except using the Seymour Duncan pups (Pearly Gares and JB). I gave up because the toggle switch started to select the wrong pickups, it was actually selecting BOTH pups on the bridge position then it was selecting just the neck humbucker and one of the single coils on the bridge when I clicked on the neck position... anyway, a nightmare.

Now that I've wired everything up, no sound on the bridge, little sound on the neck, no coil splitting on either and tons of noise. I'm gonna start step by step... I'm even thinking about turning the tone knobs into volume knobs and just avoid the whole coil tap thing...

 

[Mincer]

Re: Installing Seymour Duncan humbuckers into a Gibson that has CTs SPST CTS push pul

I would think it would be easier to just get some DPDT switches. Are you trying to make this work with the Gibson PC board thingy?