Not so complex wiring idea, I think?

[itsbadforya]

Greetings, ya wiring geniuses

I have seen all wiring diagrams on sd.com/w-d, sadly none of which have helped as none include mini toggle switches and nearly assume master volume/tone controls. Now I'm sure there is a way to modify one of those diagrams to suit my needs but I have no knowledge of how to do it.. I have an FGN Neo Classic, beautiful thing but I've heard so much about 50s wiring and other mods that I want to get me some of that.

Anyway, If you guys don't mind helping out, I would like to wire two humbuckers in such a way that:

- The neck pickup is wired into an independent volume w/ treble bleed and tone cap at .22mfd.
- I have never used the tone pot on the bridge as many of you do as well, so I'd like to bypass that altogether.
- Where the bridge tone pot used to be, I'd like to install a DPDT on/on (on/off?) toggle switch to put both pups into series/parallel.
- The bridge pup with its own independent volume control.
- 50s wiring to brighten up the lot.

Many many thanks!!

 

[itsbadforya]

Re: Not so complex wiring idea, I think?

Forgot to mention, the pups are brand spanking new SD Pearly Gates!

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Not so complex wiring idea, I think?

You won't find one drawing with all that. You'll need to look at several drawings just for each of the pieces. For example, 50's wiring is well covered on the Internet. Treble bleeds are too, just a cap or cap+resistor across lugs of the volume pot. Wiring for pickups in series/parallel is seen in Jimmy Page wiring (that might be the harder one to get your head around if you don't do wiring much. You have to be careful to still ground the bare wire while putting the pickups in series).

'Independent' volumes has two definitions. One is really 'separate' volumes, one for bridge, one for neck. The other is truly 'independent' volumes where turning down either neck or bridge doesn't completely turn off the whole guitar. These are also well-covered on the Internet.