I've got a _massive_ collection of pickups I've bought over many many years, and I'm slowly actually trying them all.
Currently I just have a single humbucker guitar wired up, with a ground/signal wire coming off the pot - it's to that I just solder the humbucker. Works well, and makes life a lot easier.
What I was thinking of though, was a way to do this for HH, or HSH guitars - I really like the Schaller Megaswitches. Is there something whereby I can wire up all the connections to the switch, and then just have a single "tab" on something where I just easily solder each individual wire from each pickup.
I feel like I've seen such things before, but can't find them searching.
I was just going to use a small connector block and just screw down the wires into that - I feel that would be about the same effort as soldering.
This is very much a temporary thing, as I've in the region of 50 or so pickups - I just want to try them all and make swapping less of a faff.
Please do feel free to tell me how stupid the whole endeavour is.
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This isn't what I used, but it's similar.
https://www.rapidonline.com/camblock-plus-cstbp508h-5-5-08mm-horizontal-screwless-terminal-block-5p-20-3707
IMO, the easiest approach for HSH format guitars is to have a dedicated testbed guitar onto which interchangeable pickguards can be slotted without removing the strings. Some of the Fender Gilmour signature Stratocaster prototypes were like this.
I have an Ibanez RG (with a floyd), with pickup rings. That means that I can just un-hook the trem springs and have easy access to the pickup. Access to wiring is at the back. It's a good guitar for such things, plus it's by far my favourite style of guitar.
Really easy to solder to, & you can put all 4 wires of a humbucker on them, for more elaborate wiring tests…
The guitar wasn’t a great success, as it was too difficult to change the pickups over, but I saw PRS using one in a video the other day which looked better, so I might give it another go:
I need to get some old fashioned "strip board" stuff and simply solder them to that, then I can solder the terminals of the switch to the same.
Doing crazy wiring things is exactly what I want to test. The switches I like are these - they're mental with the options available:
https://schaller.info/en/megaswitch-m
Will report back ... need to buy some veroboards (sp?)