Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

[daBenster96]

Hey guys! This is my first post on the forums, and I just want to say in advance thank you for all of your help with my wiring. Now, down to business.

I am trying a very unique wiring diagram, something I haven't been able to find online. I have a Fender Special American HSS guitar and I am going to attempt to wire each pickup to its own individual push/pull pot, where the down position controls volume and the up position controls tone. On top of that, I want to use a three-way switch to coil tap my bridge humbucker in a way that the up position of the switch is the North pickup,, the middle position is non-split, and the third position is using the South coil. I'll work on a digital version of the wiring diagram I wrote out over the next few days, but I am specifically stuck on how the three way switch can be used to split the coil in three different ways. Thanks in advance!

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

Welcome to the forum

For the coil split switch to work as described, you would need a SP3T switch or a SPDT that is on-off-on, not a normal pickup 3-way where the center position combines the two outside selections.

I wouldn't recommend a push-pull conversion from volume to tone, unless you only plan to switch it and set the value before beginning to play, as otherwise the volume or tone would suddenly jump to whatever level the pot happened to be at when you push or pull the switch.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

It might be possible to use one side of the push-pulls to act as V or T for other V or T knobs - i.e. the bridge pot is Volume while the middle is the Tone for the bridge, then you switch the middle pot to Volume and the neck pot to Tone for the middle, then switch the neck pot to volume and the middle pot to tone for the neck.

It may also be possible that I'm stoned out of my head.

 

[daBenster96]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

Alright, thanks a ton! I gave up on the switch controlling my humbucker, but i reworked my diagram to just have the three push-pull pots that each control a pickup. I suspected such, that the volume would jump to the tonal setting and vis-a-versa, but this is my first time going off of the books and kind of making a diagram that hasn't been mentioned online.

 

[daBenster96]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

That would get extremely confusing haha, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. For my build, I don't believe I'll be doing that.

 

[daBenster96]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

Update: I have completed the wiring, but when I plug and play, the third pot acts as a master volume. When It's turned up all of the way, however, the other two pots work as tone pots. I'll post my wiring diagram tomorrow, it's almost all drawn up.

 

[daBenster96]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.


This is the wiring I've set up. I combined two or three different wiring techniques from online, like the push/pull controlling volume/tone. Note that the colors for the humbucker are for a Fender humbucker.

 

[HALENisking]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

Trippy dippy. Assuming you got this to work, this would be kind of a rough guitar to control live.


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[daBenster96]

Re: Unique Guitar Wiring Help.

Well, after using it for about an hour, its not that bad of a wiring. It took me a while to migrate away from using the switch to change pickups, but once I got the hang of the three knobs it was fine. This wiring is more of a proof of concept, where you have a 5 way switch to coil tap in the second position so it would play the North pickup and set up the humbucker on the fourth position. I'll probably end up doing a wiring where the push pull controls... well ill figure it out in the future haha. Does anyone see any issues with the wiring itself?