Twin neck tele wiring?

[Chickenwings]

So I'm wiring up a friends doubleneck tele/baritone tele. Both necks have a pair of pickups ala regular vintage style teles.
It will have two necks but only one tele style control plate that has the usual single volume, single tone, 3 way switch setup.
He wants another 3 way switch (maybe a mini 3 way toggle) to switch between the two necks allowing 1. tele only 2. both and 3. Baritone only.
Hopefully, the single set of volume and tone controls will work on either or both necks as needed.
Any wiring gurus out there want to throw their hat in the ring?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Twin neck tele wiring?

The wiring I've seen for that has both bridge hots on the bridge lug of the 3-way blade and both neck hots on the neck lug of the 3-way blade, and a second 3-way switch has the ground from the baritone side and the ground from the normal 6-string side on it. Which guitar is active is chosen by whether it's ground is connected to the jack ground.

But test before soldering. ;-)

 

[AlexR]

Re: Twin neck tele wiring?

edit - wrong type. Not relevant.

 

[Zacker]

Re: Twin neck tele wiring?

Wire the hot leads of the pickups as you would a normal tele, for both pickups. (They share the same lugs on the switch)
Wire the ground leads of the pickups to the 3-way mini-toggle, then wire the common of the toggle to the ground of the jack.

I saw this weird wiring for a Epi/Gibson double neck that worked in a similar fashion.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Twin neck tele wiring?

you and beau are both saying the same thing. Sounds like a plan.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Twin neck tele wiring?

Tried the system you guys recommended. It didn't work because the pickups on both were running all the time. I think that system would work better with separate volume/tone controls for each axe. The ground switch just changed the loading of them with the single control setup.
In the end, went for a pair of 3p2t switches so we could get either, both or neither guitars running.