I've recently bought a sort of Nashville Tele (its got a humbucker instead of the bridge tele pickup) , I particularly care for the humbucker so was going to install the Iron Gear Steel Twin II pickups I have along with a Smoke Stack 2 in the middle (for reasons that will become clear). The iron gears all have a twin coil setting (not noise cancelling but increased output) usually from a push pull pot. I want to keep the control plate as it is with the Vol, Tone , 5 way switch and the toggle ( was for split humbucker but will now switch the extra coil in).
The Steel Twins have a ground a normal and a high output wire, as does the Smoke stack, so the low/normal output will go one side of the toggle, the high output the other side. I've worked out how it might work but I need greater minds than mine (ie. Everybody) to point out that I've got it wrong
This is the way I think it will work (the bridge will be grounded, its not on the diagram)
im prepared to accept that maybe i've got the middle pickup wires around the wrong way but thats easy to test
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
Comments
I'm guessing not...
If you want the standard 5-way switching but with a global high/low switch, you can do it - connect the three high output wires to the switch like a Strat would be done (on the side with the volume pot connection), the three low output wires to the terminals on the other side of the switch, and use the toggle to connect the two sides of the switch together which will bypass the high outputs and give you the lows.
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1 Bridge H
2 Centre H
3 Neck H
W Output 1
Pole 2
W Output 2
1 Bridge L
2 Centre L
3 Bridge L
DPDT on/on switch (or push-pull tone pot)
Pole 1 Signal from selector switch pole 1
Pole 2 Output to volume pot
Pole 3 Signal from selector switch pole 2
My preference is to orient the DPDT so that the paddle moves perpendicular to the alignment of the control plate. That way, up is high output and down is low output.
For simple switching duties, ICBM usually recommends linking the two poles.
To get there from here, connect W output 1 to the volume pot *and* to pole 1 of the toggle, and W output 2 to pole 2 of the toggle.
I would definitely do that if using the original scheme since otherwise there's a potential failure point, but it's less necessary (although still worthwhile) if using the second method.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Any reason you went for a .33 tone cap? (I'm assuming you've just written it wrongly and mean ".033".) I'm not sure which I'd prefer... if you don't need the DPDT for anything else you could use it to switch between .022 and .047. (Personally I'd probably use it to switch a treble bleed cap in and out.)
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