Killswitches, one per humbucker?

[CJT]

So. I've go a Fender Blacktop HH Stratocaster and the wiring is wonderful. The 5 position selector gives you 1: Full Bridge hum pup, 2: Inner Coils bridge and Neck pups together in series, 3: full bridge and Neck pups (parallel), 4: outer coils of bridge and neck pups (sounds out of phase?), 5: Full Neck him pup. But I can't get just a neck single coil by itself or the bridge single. I basically want to tap into either single coil while in position 2 or 4. I figure I could install one killswitch for the neck and another kill switch for the bridge pickup to switch off either pickup. I have two 2-way toggles, one per pickup. I want to keep it simple, easy, DYI, and I really don't want to rewire The 5-way switch.

Do I place the toggle between each pickups hot wire and then ground the toggle to back of the pot or ground it at the output jack? I think I'm in the right direction but not sure how to ground properly.

I included the guitar schematics along with a typical killswitch schematic but it is between the master volume and output jack.

Any help would be great.

 

[CJT]

Re: Killswitches, one per humbucker?

You only need one and it goes between the hot and ground near the jack.

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No no no. Your diagram functions like a typical kill switch cutting out the entire signal, rather than each pick up separately. I want the option to cut out the neck pickup and the bridge pickup individually when in single coid dual mode in switch position 2 & 4 with individual killswiches. But thanks.

 

[RStabler]

Re: Killswitches, one per humbucker?

I try to install a killswitch every 3 inches on the guitar surface. This way, wherever my hand ends up, there is always one right there.

 

[Zhaggy]

Re: Killswitches, one per humbucker?

You'd need a kill switch for each coil (so 4) and you can do that with 2 switches cause they way SD shows the killswitch wiring in that picture is the most complicated way of doing it. I don't know why on earth they show it that way. You are connecting hot to ground and you certainly don't need 6 poles from a switch to do that, only 2.

However

I'd suggest you get 2 3-way on/off/on miniswithces and wire them as coil splits. So for each pickup it would be outercoil/fullhumbucker/innercoil. That way you can not only decide which coil you like to use from the pickup but in the position 3 where you have both on, you get more options on what combination of coils you like, like outer coil on one pickup and full humbucker on the other.

 

[CJT]

Re: Killswitches, one per humbucker?

idsnowdog, why three toggle switches? I only have two pickups and I don't intend on killing the signal at the output jack ...

 

[CJT]

Re: Killswitches, one per humbucker?

You'd need a kill switch for each coil (so 4) and you can do that with 2 switches cause they way SD shows the killswitch wiring in that picture is the most complicated way of doing it. I don't know why on earth they show it that way. You are connecting hot to ground and you certainly don't need 6 poles from a switch to do that, only 2.
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Thanks, Zhaggy. The three way sounds like the most logical and provide some extra function at the same time. Do I ground the toggle switch to the same pot that the pick is originally grounded to?