Hey there, I have a question for you all out there.
I am building an explorer style guitar and want to go with a minimalistic design. I only want the 2 humbuckers, 1 volume, and my output.
I wa browsing SD's wiring diagrams and came across the scheme where there is a single coil at the neck and a humbucker at the bridge, and the push/pull volume pot allows you to select pickups (down for bridge and pulled up for neck). I was thinking, Just like a single coil pickup, a humbucker, (when not coil splitting) has a ground and a hot, so I should be able to do the same wiring scheme but with two humbuckers?
what are your opinions on this? This is a cool idea in my mind and it will, 1. help me achieve the minimalistic design that i want, and 2. this wiring will be helpful for me since i dont use the neck pup as often as the bridge.
Thanks for any help in advance!
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You could try a push/push instead, but then you wouldn't have a visual indicator of which pickup is selected. You could get round that problem by fitting some LEDs to show which pickup is on, but that might not be minimalist enough for you.
If you want to go minimalist, how about losing the volume control, and using a volume pedal instead?
I already have my electronics, including my spare push pull pot (ive built a guitar and modded several others before) and I was just looking around for some fairly unique wiring.
As an example, If I am playing Sweet Child O Mine, then the whole song is played in the neck position, but then the fast part of the solo onwards, Slash quickly switches to the bridge pup to continue, and with the push pull config I figured i can just hit the pot and it will make switching easier.
I dont switch on the fly that often, and if i do it is from neck to bridge, so I wouldn't have to worry about pulling the pot up on the fly.
Got any other ideas, I like this one but I am always willing to listen to others
But try it your way and see. Hopefully you'll prove me wrong! And if you're building this for your GCSE, then you'll probably have plenty more guitar builds in your future to try out other ideas.