Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Catalyst77 on April 27, 2007, 03:01:17 PM
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Thought I'd jump on the band wagon with my wiring questions!
I have a couple of esp mirage deluxe's which only have a humbucker at the bridge and a single coil at the neck. Weird I know!
As a result I'm finding it almost impossible to find the right wiring diagrams; i've never done any wiring before but I think I should find out how to do it - so this is my wiring question!
How do I wire a humbucker and a single coil with a three way switch and two pots? Ideally I'd like these to control the volume of each pickup, with coil tapping (push pull pot?)- not to fussed about shaping the tone using the guitar.
Cheers
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fist things first - what type of switch are you using. Is it a gibson style toggle switch or a fender style blade switch?
here is aquick diagram with the fender style switch;
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/WezV/23.jpg)
I have done it with BKP colour code, the red wire is the hot one and goes to the volume - then to the switch.
The green wire on the humbucker will be the green and white coil tap wire.
All the black wires go to ground/earth.
thats one way of doing it anyway
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cHEERS
it's Def a blade switch, but I dont really want to drill any extra holes in the body for coil tapping, i was thinking push pulls for the volume controls instead?
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yeah, the switch i drew could either be a DPDT mini switch or a push/ pull switch attached to the volume
there are different types of switches for this but since you mentioned the push/pull pot i drew the one you most likely will use. They look like this:
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/WezV/3738_1lg.jpg)
i drew them seperately because its easier.
There area lso different types of blade switch so i drew the fender one. It might have all the contacts in a row as apposed to 4 each side. Take a look in your guitar - take a photo and we will see