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The choice is a personal one. I’ve made guitars with both methods. I find the four way switch more intuitive (for me), and less likely to leave me with no signal as I burst into a blistering solo.
https://www.seymourduncan.com/tech-tips?tip_id=34071
Your high output pickups should already sound pretty "fat". Linking them in series could result in a loud, mushy tone.
If your pickups are both dual coil noise-cancelling types, it might be worth splitting their respective coils and only combining one coil from each pickup for the series mode.
It is possible to rejig the existing selector switch to provide Neck / Both in series / Bridge but I shall have to scratch my head until I remember how the circuit goes (or I wear through my skull).
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Is the push pull difficult to do?
"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
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I did one yesterday.
"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
https://m.thomann.de/gb/freeway_switch_3b3_01_black_barrel_tip.htm
"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
To do this on a Telecaster, it would be necessary to add a third pot on the control plate.
In that case, simply temporarily solder the series link using the conductor wires of the pickups.
In this state, the series signal will reach the selector switch via the "hot" output conductor of the neck position pickup. Shifting the selector switch to the Bridge Only position will shut off the signal.
Given the d.c. resistance stats for OCP Liquidators and Duncan QPs, whichever permutation you have is going to yield a combined notional output of at least 26k Ohms.
In series, out-of-phase, might prove interesting in a Brian May Red Special kind of way.
So connect the bridge pickup black wire to the neck pickup white wire instead of to ground, and that will give you the series sound in what was the bridge position.
"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
Please DO NOT cut any cables on either of your pickups.
If your neck/Rhythm position pickup has a metal cover, there ought to be a short wire between the soldering eyelet for the black output conductor and one of the three tabs that secure the metal cover to the lower fibreboard plate of the pickup. De-solder this wire at the tab rather than the eyelet. Bend the jumper wire away from the metal tab. Maybe, even, insulate it. Finally, solder a new insulated wire to the tab on the metal cover. Run this through to the control cavity. Ground the other end to the chassis of the volume pot.
But it's *really* easier to do this using the bridge pickup, at the very least as a trial. You will not need to cut or undo anything since the bridge pickup already has a separate ground anyway.
"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