Brainstorming about pickupwiring.

[Roland]

First off - I know close to nothing de facto about exactly how pickupwiring is soldered and so on. However, there's an idea of mine that I have...
How about if you were to wire a 3-way push-pull coiltap to each pickup? Down position has series, parallel and disengaged, while up position has bridgecoil, neckcoil and disengaged. Would this be possible? Like the Warwick Doublebuck Corvette, except the 3-ways also have push-pull on them.

[djohns74]

Sounds unecessarily complex to me. However, disregarding the complexity of using such a system as well as the dubious need for some of the selections provided, I don't think you could get exactly those options. You should be able to get either one of those sets of three options with the correct type of three-way switch, but I can't picture how you could flip between them just by adding a push-pull (essentially a two-way switch).

The best I can imagine would be to have the push-pull select series/parallel operation, then the three-way could do humbucker/single/disengaged. Of course, the push-pull would have no effect with the switch in positions two and three, but, eh, you can't have everything. That wouldn't really be any less usefully in terms of available tones than your proposal, though. Selecting between the bridge coil and neck coil on a split humbucker is really marginally useful, especially in combined positions where you run into phasing issues.

[Roland]

I'm trying to get out as much versatility as possible out of a marginally simple wiring layoutwise. How about two mini 5-wayswitches, if there is such a thing, then?

[Jaden]

just get a megaswitch and a tone control coil tap !

I have a H - H guitar with:

1: brige -series
2: bridge - parallel
3: bridge and neck - series
4: neck - parallel
5: neck - series

once you add the coil tap to these selections there are more tones available than you could shake a sh1tty stick at !

I also have a high pass filter on the volume knob - like JS guitars.

[Roland]

Thing is, I don't want a tone-knob... Is it just better in the end to have a 5-way 2-position pickupswitch then? I just thought the dual coiltap switch thing would look cool and give a more logical layout to it.