magnet orientation question

[dazco]

I have a tele with fender WRHB pickups. I removed the bar magnet like the telenator mod does and replaced the screw polepieces with alnico rods. Of course when you do this you orient one coil's rods north and the other south. However,I'm still not crazy about the tone so before i go and buy a set of boutiques or have someone rewind them or whatever, i have one more thing i wanna try. I want to wire it up so the 2 coils are in parallel. With it wired like that it seems to me i would want the magnets all oriented the same way instead of one north one south. Is there anything i am missing? Also, wouldn't leaving them as is right now, one north and one south when the coils are in parallel, cause a thin sound?

 

[Guitaraxz]

Re: magnet orientation question

I want to wire it up so the 2 coils are in parallel. With it wired like that it seems to me i would want the magnets all oriented the same way instead of one north one south.

The only thing you would achieve by flipping the mag orientation is loose the humbucking cuality. You would get hum. Parallel means both coils go to ground and both coils go out (to volume or switch). Series means one coil is conected to the other and you get only one ground and one output. Don't flip the mags.

Also, wouldn't leaving them as is right now, one north and one south when the coils are in parallel, cause a thin sound?

A thin sound happens when you put them out of phase. Parallel sounds like a Strat in the 2 & 4 positions in which the singles are in parallel.

Old Strats have all singles with the same mag orientation but on the new models Fender switches the mag orientation on the middle pup thus getting rid of hum on the 2&4 positions. On vintage correct Strats you still have hum on those positions.

You can try a push-pull with a series/ parallel wiring and hear both tones on the same pickup.