guitar wiring mod help

[Wired]

I got a fun one. I don't even know if its possible, but I'm hoping that someone better than me at guitar wiring mods can help me out with this one.


I got a 4 way telecaster switch
a single coil 3 wire telecaster neck pickup (Fender Twisted Tele)
a humbucker 5 wire telecaster bridge pickup (Dimarzio Super Distortion)
volume/tone

I want to have a combination of switching options that looks like:

Neck
Neck/Bridge tapped
Bridge tapped
Bridge full humbucker

the way fender wires it up with a pair of single coils goes:

bride
bridge & neck parallel
neck
bridge & neck series

I can only assume its due to how the poles on the switch are wired in the original diagram.




Any ideas if I can get what I want from this switch? Or would I be better off with a five way selector? and what would I get from the additional switch location?

thanks!

[Thinline_slim]

Sorry no help here but I think that's a really cool idea.

I kind of wired my SSS Strat up a little the same way but with a push/pull pot on the 2nd tone switch. It puts the middle and bridge pickup in series for a little volume boost.

Good luck!

[Woodsie]

Hit up Jonesy at Jonesyblues.com. I know him from the MyLesPaul Forum. I bought a drop in 50's wiring harness from him for my LP and it was a great piece of work. He specializes in that sort of thing. He builds Jimmy Page 20 something different combination harnesses for LPs too. If he can't do it, no one can.

[Alex Sheeny]

one more bump for jonesy, best service out there!

[brianr0131]

Not sure if you can do all that without either a mini toggle or a superswitch.

I would suggest you join TDPRI and PM Phostenix he will help you within a day or 2. GREAT GUY!

Here are a bunch of his diagrams though.

https://sites.google.com/site/phostenix ... rams/teles" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PS that Super Distortion T is a Beast....isn't it?

[OrangePaul]

I'm sure it can be done.
If you think of the switch as actually being two 4 way switches side by side which is what they are once you've removed the little short link that joins either side together... then its possible.

There will be a pair of wires from your humbucker which need switching to ground for coil tapping. Connect this pair to the common pin of this second switch and just run a ground wire to the middle 2 positions so the humbucker is 'tapped to ground' on those positions.

The only real problem is working out which is the common pin on each switch since these diagrams don't usually go into that specific detail.
With a multimeter you should be able to work it out easilly enough though...I think they are normally diagonally opposite one another so don't be surprised to find that to be the case.

Remember also to link the hot wire of your humbucker to postions 1 and 2 on the other 'pickup selector' side switch.



On a regular Strat the 2nd switch is used for switching in and out the tone controls but I'm guessing you're using a master tone anyways as per the diagram you posted.

EDIT: I've realised this wont work on the pickup selector side without a strat type 5 position to enable the bridge and neck pups to be run together.
I think its a 5 way or a push/pull pot in order to do it.