Guitar wiring mods - diagram added - find all my mistakes please

Started by chille01, May 15, 2011, 11:37:09 PM

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chille01

I just went back and had a look at the coil split thread, because I've been reading a lot about the various mods you can do with two four wire humbuckers (which I just happen to have, because I bought some new PUP's based on advice on this site).  In any event, I've got a LP with two four wire humbuckers, and a couple of push-pull pots for the tone.  I've never done any of these kinds of mods though, and haven't been able to dig up the diagram for exactly what I have in mind (if it's even possible).  Any comments or links appreciated.

Warning - It get's real nerdy from here:

The three mods I'd like to integrate are:

1) A spin-a-split for the neck pickup.  Basically you sacrifice one tone control (making the other one a master tone), and turn it into a variable coil split.  So instead of just being split or not split, you can turn the knob and dial in a varying balance between the coils.
http://www.smitspickups.com/coiltapping.htm About halfway down the page.

2) Use the push/pull on this same knob to put the pickups in either parallel (normal), or series to eachother.
http://www.1728.com/guitar10.htm The second, single switch option

3) Use the other push/pull to put the pickups in our out of phase from one another
http://www.1728.com/guitar.htm near the bottom of the page.

I've found links and diagrams for each of these mods individually, just not sure if there is any consideration I'm missing or reasons I can't do all three, as noted above?

VOLVO)))

Coil taps are simple/common. Phase switching is simple/common. Coil tapping with a 4-wire is a no brainer. Phase switching is a little, tiny bit more involved, and gives you that nasty funky wah-sounding-scooped out sound. Hollow, almost.

spin-a-split came standard on the Peavey t-60/t-40. It's a fucking sick (and useful) thing to have. You can phase switch and coil tap the same circuit.

If you can follow instructions, it's all pretty easy to do. I like mini-switches, but I also like non-invasive mods to guitars, so push-pulls are good for me.




the mini switches just look so cool, though...


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chille01

So I've done some more research into this, and cobbled together a schematic based on pieces of about 3 other ones.  Can someone who knows such things look and see where I fucked it up?

Intended operation is:

Two volumes, 1 master tone, 3 way
Spin a split on bridge tone
tone split on neck/master tone (basically, tone full on equals split coil, anything less than full equals humbucker with regular tone control)
Series/parallel switch on bridge push pull
Phase switch on neck push pull