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Post by mcook217 on Sept 30, 2018 17:18:19 GMT -7
So I was watching a video on youtube that had a Shelton Skyflight IV and it peaked my curiosity. I looked up the specs on it and it said that it has 4 pickups in an HSS configuration. In the bridge position, it has a strat sized p90 and a normal strat pickup that are placed right next to each other like a humbucker. The 5-way switch functions like normal strat wiring but there is a push-pull pot that turns on both the p90 and the normal strat bridge pickup in series to sound like a humbucker. There is some additional switching stuff but let's focus on the bridge pickup stuff. I'd love to do something similar with my strat project but with the skyflight the push-pull limits you to only getting one of the pickups and humbucker mode, and the other pickup only gets used in in humbucker mode. So I'm curious, could I use a three-way switch like the ones on a mustang (I just like how low profile they are) and get: p-90 - Both in Series - strat pickup? If so how would I wire that? I already have the pickups, I would just need to know how to wire it. Anybody have an idea? Thanks!
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Post by headshrinker (Marc) on Sept 30, 2018 18:02:34 GMT -7
Look into the seymour duncan p-rail pickup and their triple shot surround ring. The p-rail is a humbucker with one coil a p-90 and the other a single coil. I've got a guitar with a pair of them in it. With it you can get either pickup alone, both together in series and both together in parallel. It's a lot easier than using switches. I bought them separate but I think you can buy the pickup and ring as a set.
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Post by mcook217 on Sept 30, 2018 18:11:37 GMT -7
Look into the seymour duncan p-rail pickup and their triple shot surround ring. The p-rail is a humbucker with one coil a p-90 and the other a single coil. I've got a guitar with a pair of them in it. With it you can get either pickup alone, both together in series and both together in parallel. It's a lot easier than using switches. I bought them separate but I think you can buy the pickup and ring as a set.T Thing is I already have the pickups around and a mustang style 3 way switch from a previous project that didn't pan out. I'm just not good at figure out the actual wiring of this kind of stuff
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Post by mcook217 on Sept 30, 2018 19:17:25 GMT -7
I found this diagram but it has the two pickups in parallel with an additional switch to get series tones. I know there has to be some way of just adjusting the one switches diagram to make them series instead of parallel but all of those lines just make my eyes go crossed:
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Oct 1, 2018 6:31:58 GMT -7
That would be very easy to do. If it were me, I'd wire the two pickups in series, and then use the selector switch to short out the pickup that I didn't want on at the time. So in the middle position, the switch wouldn't do anything, in the neck position you'd run wires from the (+) and (-) of the bridge pickup so they would connect, then in the bridge position you'd run wires from the (+) and (-) of the neck pickup so they would connect. Piece of cake.
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Post by mcook217 on Oct 1, 2018 10:52:17 GMT -7
That would be very easy to do. If it were me, I'd wire the two pickups in series, and then use the selector switch to short out the pickup that I didn't want on at the time. So in the middle position, the switch wouldn't do anything, in the neck position you'd run wires from the (+) and (-) of the bridge pickup so they would connect, then in the bridge position you'd run wires from the (+) and (-) of the neck pickup so they would connect. Piece of cake. That's a great idea! Thanks so much!
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