Spin a Split Help

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The Usual

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I think that's what I want to do with my SG bridge.

I want to use the tone pot from my neck pickup as a master tone, and then use my tone pot from the bridge as a spin between the two bridge coils. Anyone have a diagram on how all of this would look?

I found the spin a split posts by Artie, and I am still wrapping my head around them. How would I wire the master tone in conjunction with this?
 
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From what I can tell of this diagram:
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=2h_2v_3w_2sas

Spin-a-split shunts the r+w to ground, so you should be able to wire both pickups to one spinner. However, if one gets split, the other will also, so you can't mix neck full+bridge split and vise versa.

You can replace the spinner with a push pull to select which one gets split when spun, and that will give you the mixes.


As for the Master Tone, come off the 3-way's center to the Tone, then from the Tone to the jack.



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Oh wait, you want to spin between just the bridge coils? Like Spin it one way and get Screw Coil, Spin it the other way and get Slug coil?
 
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Yes, you got it. I want to either a) spin between all slug, bucker, all screw of just the bridge, on the bridge tone knob or b) just spin from full bucker to one of the coils. I added b because according to Artie, there's not much benefit to a, relative to the work involved. Or that's how I read his post.

The pickup is a 490R so the colour codes will be different. In terms of coil starts and stops, can you tell me what I need to attach to the pot? You know, start of slug and end of screw I assume are the normal bucker connections, but I could be wrong.
 
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Arties tried a center-dent pot to try and Spin-A-Split to either coil, with full humbucking in the dent. He basically said it sucked and scrapped the idea quickly lol. I've been doing Spin-A-Split research for my upcoming wiring
 
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Yeah, I think I gathered that from his threa as well. So which do you think I is better to split to, coil or slug? I guess there's one way to tell.
 
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slug for sure. the screw coil in the bridge position of an SG is very brittle with hardly any output, especially with a stock 490 set.
 
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Thanks folks. I really only want to do it, to mess with different middle positions. I'll try the slug.
 
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The Usual said:
Yes, you got it. I want to either a) spin between all slug, bucker, all screw of just the bridge, on the bridge tone knob or b) just spin from full bucker to one of the coils. I added b because according to Artie, there's not much benefit to a, relative to the work involved. Or that's how I read his post.

The pickup is a 490R so the colour codes will be different. In terms of coil starts and stops, can you tell me what I need to attach to the pot? You know, start of slug and end of screw I assume are the normal bucker connections, but I could be wrong.
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For the Gibson, Red is hot and Green+White should be the splits. However, if you shunt those to Ground, the Screw coil will be active. I've always wired my splits backwards (i.e. splits going to hot rather than ground, so i always got slug coil), so I can tell you how to do it with a switch, but not "the right way" with a spinner :lol:

I would like to know, though.


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Unless you'd run the Hot to the spinner and the splits to the switch?

I always did mine with a toggle - hot to one side, split to the other, so when I flipped it, I sent the splitters to the output and thus cut off the hot. Since that got me the slug coil, I'm assuming that's what you'd get with the spin-a-split.
 
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