Single in HSH guitar and Push Pull Pot Problem

[rebel082002]

I am still working on my Project HSH but have focus to the middle pu. It's a Fender Hot alinco 3 Reverse wound/Reverse Polarity.

Issue: Do not have H/H with current wiring, Mid is always on.

Can you use a Push/Pull (DPDT or SPDT) pot to turn the middle pu on & off, no matter the switch position?

Also, it is a little to trebley for the SD SH-14 Custom 5 ,I have in the Bridge. Is there a way to tone down the treble? Maybe with a capacitor or P/P Pot less than 250K,(not sure what this would do)? If so what size.

Last one, is anyone familiar with the following 5 way switch and how the connections work. I have never seen a 5 way with 7 connections. They also have 3 way with 7 connections.

Made in China
Shenzhen IKN Technology Co., Ltd.
Model # SYQKG-04

 

[IMENATOR]

Re: Single in HSH guitar and Push Pull Pot Problem

Hi Rebel, This is the way I doit today. I currently have a HSH (Jazz Neck, Stock Single Coil Middle, JB Bridge) in my Poplar MIM Strat. I have a single tone pot and I use it to split the humbuckers so I can use the guitar in a kind of strat configuration. Instead of the second tone pot I installed a little toggle switch to put neck and bridge in parallel. Being that said I can have some single coil quack in posotions 2 and 4, get HH parallel wit the switch on and pot off and finally get a SC neck SC bridge parallel with switch on and pot on.

About your question on having the middle pickup always on, I guess you can try using the pot to connect the middle directly to the volume pot so it is always on.

Good luck

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Single in HSH guitar and Push Pull Pot Problem

rebel, it is going to be difficult to offer any practical advise on your guitar wiring problem without a photograph or some sort of diagram of what you currently have in your guitar.

On the SYQKG switch, the centre connection is the common output for the two poles of the switch. (i. e. The two groups of three terminals to either side.) The combined output connection is the equivalent of the jumper wire between the two wiper terminals of a Fender/CRL type selector switch.

For a seven contact switch to operate as a three-way, the connections would have to be made as follows;
1 = Bridge PU + jumper to terminal #2
2 = jumper from terminal #1
3 = not used

4 = Common output (to volume pot)

5 = not used
6 = jumper to terminal #7
7 = jumper from terminal #6 + Neck PU