Serious Pickup Wiring Help!

[jamesperkin]

Hi

I'm part way through my first self build (a tele type guitar with noiseless strat neck, noiseless tele middle and hi-output humbucker bridge, one tone, one volume and 3 dpdt on/off/on switches, one for each pickup). All pickups are 4-conductor.

Basically for the humbucker I want to choose off, series, parrallel, and for each of the other pickups off, series and coil split. I guess the wiring is similar for each. However, all wiring diagrams I can find talk about 2 way switches and I'm not confident that my 3 way will enable an off position.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a diagram that should work?

Your help is much appreciated!

Thanks
James

 

[Artie]

Re: Serious Pickup Wiring Help!

Wiring should be pretty straightfoward, like this:

. . . but with one potential problem. Wiring like this, when the bridge is "off", you'll still have one of its coils hanging out on the hot side of the circuit, acting as a noise antenna. It may or may not be a problem.

 

[jamesperkin]

Re: Serious Pickup Wiring Help!

Okay thanks a lot I'll give that a go.