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I want to make a disclaimer that I know nothing about wiring guitars. I plan to learn with a new guitar kit that I'm going to buy soon, but for now I am paying someone else to do it for me because it's an extremely complicated job.
Anyway. I tried to get my guitar set up with a luthier who is helping me. I installed my guitar with a 5-way pickup selector, a momentary kill switch, and two push/pull pots for volume and tone.
The luthier told me that it wouldn't work unless I was willing to forgo having a tone knob, as the two pickups would have to go to each pot separately. He told me to call Seymour Duncan for a wiring diagram, however it's Sunday and they're closed.
So, I came up with a new design for my guitar. For this one, I would install a new toggle switch into the body that splits both the neck and the bridge pickups. There would be no push/pull pots on the guitar anymore, as the coil splitting would be controlled by the switch instead.
I admit I'm a little frustrated - my new revised design should work and I don't understand why an experienced guitar tech like the one I'm talking to wouldn't be able to wire it up. It's literally just a standard HSH with a 5-way pickup selector. The only differences would be that the bridge and neck pickups would go through a toggle switch that splits them. And the overall signal would go through a momentary kill switch.
I drew a diagram of what I want each switch on my guitar to do. The first one (on top) was my original plan that I learned would not work. The second drawing is a revised design that I think could work, but my luthier/tech wants a wiring diagram for it.
Anyway. I tried to get my guitar set up with a luthier who is helping me. I installed my guitar with a 5-way pickup selector, a momentary kill switch, and two push/pull pots for volume and tone.
The luthier told me that it wouldn't work unless I was willing to forgo having a tone knob, as the two pickups would have to go to each pot separately. He told me to call Seymour Duncan for a wiring diagram, however it's Sunday and they're closed.
So, I came up with a new design for my guitar. For this one, I would install a new toggle switch into the body that splits both the neck and the bridge pickups. There would be no push/pull pots on the guitar anymore, as the coil splitting would be controlled by the switch instead.
I admit I'm a little frustrated - my new revised design should work and I don't understand why an experienced guitar tech like the one I'm talking to wouldn't be able to wire it up. It's literally just a standard HSH with a 5-way pickup selector. The only differences would be that the bridge and neck pickups would go through a toggle switch that splits them. And the overall signal would go through a momentary kill switch.
I drew a diagram of what I want each switch on my guitar to do. The first one (on top) was my original plan that I learned would not work. The second drawing is a revised design that I think could work, but my luthier/tech wants a wiring diagram for it.
