would this work??

[rainsong86]

I'm thinking of having this setup in a les paul style guitar:
SH-5 custom bridge (nickel cover)
SH-1 59 neck (nickel cover)
master tone with series/parallel push/pull pot
bridge volume with push/pull coil tap for bridge pickup
neck volume with push/pull coil tap for neck pickup
3-way switch: bridge pickup (treble position), both pickups (middle position), neck pickup (rhythm position)

What I'm wondering is whether it's possible to wire it so that in the middle position (with both pickups tapped single) I can just put the pickups in parallel to get that 4th position stratocaster "quack" Hendrix tone (think little wing).. would this setup also have hum cancelling? another Q: aren't les pauls wired in series for the middle position.. also would you suggest using 500k or 250k pots

 

[Artie]

Re: would this work??

Most of it is do-able. For starters, a Les Paul is wired in parallel in the middle position. Using a push-pull to split the humbuckers so that they remain humbucking when split is fairly easy. I'll post the diagram tonight. You can do both with just one PP.

On the master tone PP, do you mean series/parallel of one pickup, or relative to both? Thats two different things. I don't think those two humbuckers would sound very good in series, (with each other, that is.) If you just mean one pup, thats easy enough.

Artie