Pickup custom wiring question

[Guitarrman]

Hi, I'm planning to mod the wiring on my sg to perfectly suit my needs. What I want to accomplish is a 2 humbucker setup where the first thing both pickups go to is a 3-way toggle where the first position is both pickups on, essentially bypassing the switch, second is just the neck pickup with a resistor to lower the output and let me swap between driven and clean tones with a single switch, and the third position being the neck pickup with the resistor and coil split. After that thr wiring would have two volumes with a coil split for the bridge pickup, a master tone and another 3-way switch to normally switch between neck, bridge and both. Is this completely retatded or is it possible, and if it is possible, how would i wire it? Thanks for any advice!

 

[Liko]

Re: Pickup custom wiring question

Not with the stock SG switch. You'd be able to do something like this on a Tele or HH Strat using a Lonestar switch (aka a superswitch), but AFAIK there's nothing available that would fit in the cavity for an LP-style selector that could do all this.

Your best bet will probably be some push-pull pots. If you disconnected the pickup selector, then wired a "bridge-on", a resistor and a neck coil split, you'll get all the same features plus additional combinations, and if you use push-push switches available from Warmoth (the mechanism works like a retractable ballpoint pen) it'll be almost as easy to switch as you want to have with the selector; push two knobs to switch between neck/bridge and neck with resistor, then use the third switch to add the coil split.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Pickup custom wiring question

there's nothing available that would fit in the cavity for an LP-style selector that could do all this.

Oh, yes, there is. http://www.freewayswitch.com

You will need to trawl through the .pdf schematic diagrams to find something that could be adapted to fulfil your somewhat unusual brief.

With all of the controls occupying a single cavity, you avoid the long cable runs of a Les Paul.

 

[Liko]

Re: Pickup custom wiring question

Oh, yes, there is. http://www.freewayswitch.com

You will need to trawl through the .pdf schematic diagrams to find something that could be adapted to fulfil your somewhat unusual brief.

With all of the controls occupying a single cavity, you avoid the long cable runs of a Les Paul.

That switch is a really cool idea. Didn't know it existed.

 

[guitarSQUIRELL]

Re: Pickup custom wiring question

Oh, yes, there is. http://www.freewayswitch.com

You will need to trawl through the .pdf schematic diagrams to find something that could be adapted to fulfil your somewhat unusual brief.

With all of the controls occupying a single cavity, you avoid the long cable runs of a Les Paul.

I never knew that type animal existed either. Would be a pain to wire up looks like though.