Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

Danyosound

Danyosound

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My older Jaguar is all in shambles since I'm toying with it again.

This is what I want to do:

Single coil on the main control plate: volume and tone.

Humbucker on the upper horn plate: volume and tone.
Upper horn switch: split to single coil.

Help!
 
Re: Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

- Hb black wire to the horn volume and tone control (you have to change the tone pot value, since it's too low, get a 500K or 1Mlog) , green to ground, red and white together to the central lug of the horn switch with one of the other lug to ground. From the volume control go to the lower horn switch.
- single coil wire to the lower controls then, from the volume to the lower horn switch
- output of the lower horn switches directly to output jack

done.
 
Re: Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

Wow cool!

I still want to switch the humbucker on/off from the lower control plate.
 
Re: Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

if you mantain the lower switches as is, connnected the way I wrote you could have the bright switch too working
 
Re: Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

It's not completely working! I decided to ditch the upper volume and tone controls (the humbucker is weak anyway), so I want to wire the humbucker to the on/off switch plate directly. This is what I have so far:

North Start to upper horn plate
North Finish and South Finish together to upper horn plate
wire from North and South Finish to bottom switch plate
(Upper horn switch to ground) (switch plate to ground)

This works! The switch plate turns the pickup on and off, and the upper horn plate switch splits the coil!

But it won't work with the Single coil, which I want to wire to the Volume and Tone and switch plate.

With the Humbucker is turned on, the single coils are slightly on (with a little tap from a screw driver).

This isn't working quite the way I want, but I might be close to figuring it out.
 
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Re: Jaguar Humbucker + Single. Coil Split

I sort of figured out what I wanted to do.
I wired the Jag up and it seemed that I wasn't getting the volume or the tone pot to work at all. I patch it up and tuned up the strings, and to my surprise I had done the opposite of what I set out to do. The humbucker -- no splittable to single coil -- was wired to tone and volume, while the singles were not connected to tone at all.
I wanted the other way around: singles to tone and volume, humbucker without tone control.

Getting closer. And in any case, this was moral victory for me, since I am mostly clueless when working with electricity.

Solutions?
 
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