Swapping Pickup Magnets

barnsleyboy

@ICBM, you are indeed a jedi master in these things..... Big respect!

So correcting the 4 switch option, it would look like this?

I'm taking a punt here, but would the 3 switch version just do away with the 4th switch altogether? Something like this:

ICBM

barnsleyboy said:

So correcting the 4 switch option, it would look like this?

Move the blue and green wires to the middle terminals of their pots and it will.

barnsleyboy said:

I'm taking a punt here, but would the 3 switch version just do away with the 4th switch altogether? Something like this:

You need to ground the two unused terminals on the phase switch, but otherwise that's it.

barnsleyboy

Funkfingers said:

barnsleyboy said:

Does it matter which pickup I rotate the magnet on?

No but, in your position, I would use this opportunity to try the Alnico 4 magnet in the neck position pickup.

@Funkfingers You were right about the Alnico 4 - Good call.

Funkfingers

I *may* have substituted that magnet type myself.

Hopefully, the series mode sound is so versatile that you feel no need for the mode switching business.

barnsleyboy

The switches are on a different guitar. The only embellishment that I might be tempted with on the HB-35 is a push pull phase reversal for the neck pickup.