Single humbucker in a guitar

[octavio_amzer]

this is a diagram for a series/single coil/parallel switch with bkp wiring colours:



if you use a push/pull pot or two way switch it will just be a series/parallel switch but that works well too.

If you can add a mini switch easily you can get a on-on-on switch for the single coil operation as well on the same switch

So with a nailbomb the switch would give you

humbucker in series - full 16k hum cancelling operation
(Single coil - around 8k non-hum cancelling)
humbucker in parallel - around 4k hum cancelling

wow  :D thankyou very much! But is it possible to use the volume and tone as push/pulls so I can not use a switch? (the guitar was intended to be made without a single switch)

maybe I could asign:

Volume = single coil
Tone = Parallel

thatwould give me all the options available and not needing a switch. Or am I wrong?is this possible?

[WezV]

not sure how to get that to work.  but mini-switches are small  (hence the name) and can normally be fitted into a control cavity quite discretely with only one extra hole needing to be drilled.  I would check to see if you have room for that - if you dont i would go with a single push/pull for series/parallel operation and forget the single coil option


If the guitar has volume and tone there is normally enough room between them to fit a mini-switch

[WezV]

Or am i just being dumb here - i think you probably could have one series/parallel switch and one coil tap switch on 2 push/pull pots.

Obviously the series/parallel one would not function when the coil split was in operation just not sure how else it would effect it - whever it would stop the other switch working altogether or not.

[Philly Q]

Or am i just being dumb here - i think you probably could have one series/parallel switch and one coil tap switch on 2 push/pull pots.

I don't see how that could be possible - all four wires from the pickup would be connected to the series/parallel switch (assuming it comes first), so what would be connected to the coil split switch?  :?

[WezV]

thats the problem - but i wasnt sure if you could run a wire from the green lead on the series parallel switch over to the coil tap switch.

a 3-way on-on-on mini switch is definately the easiest solution

tbh the more wiring i do  - the more i like to keep it simple!!

You can do guitars with a gazillion settings but most people only ever use 2-3 anyway

[Philly Q]

tbh the more wiring i do  - the more i like to keep it simple!!

You can do guitars with a gazillion settings but most people only ever use 2-3 anyway

I agree totally!

I'm quite happy to exploit the possibilities of a 5-way superswitch, but I can't be doing with push-pulls and mini-switches.  Having said that, my two single-pickup SG-X guitars already had coil-split switches which I now use for series/parallel, and I do like the parallel sound.