H-S-H series/parallel switch help please :)

[Sponge Monkey]

@Vim Fuego, i'd just like to point out... you are an incredibly helpful person :P

thankyou!

[vai n maiden]

Well the tech's not called me to say mine's not working and I'll be picking it up on Saturday - so I'm hoping Vim's right! Those were DiMarzio colours though weren't they? Not sure whether BKP have them another way around!

[Sponge Monkey]

yeah they were dimarzio colours, and BKP's ARE a bit different. BKP's go Red, Green, White, Black (from the top down), i believe... :P

if i'm wrong then... that would explain my botched installation :P

[Vim Fuego]

Just to put this to bed... from the Bareknuckle site, this is correct:



as posted earlier, so the final diagram would be:



With the correct wire colours for the BKPs
Jim

[lwchafin]

OK, djohns & vim - thanks for the help - I've ordered everything I think I'll need to do this, plus a couple of extra pots and such to keep around for this or that miscellaneous dabbling. I ended up ordereing enough parts (after all they're pretty cheap) to use either push-pull or standard pots - 250 or 500 ohm, and after not being able to find an Ibanez JEM switch, ordered a 5 way mega switch from Stew-Mac. If I can't get it to behave, I'll post its schematic on the site and elicit your further help - will probably be a couple of weeks at least before I dive in, but I'll post to let you know how it goes.

btw, lwchafin is the new ID since the old one (chafinlw) got lost (story of my life I guess) along with the password I forgot and the link to change it that didn't work.

[Vim Fuego]

I'd be happy to help, pm me when you have the schematic and I'll check it.
Jim

[vai n maiden]

Just to update guys - I got my strat back. When the tech wired up as per the diagram when the dpdts were engaged positions 2 and 4 went dead. That may have been to do with the strat having a middle and neck tone control though as the middle tone's now wired to the bridge pup and it works fine. With the splitting already there when you have the pups in parallel you're essentially doing the same thing but with coils from the same pickup - it's quite a subtle difference but it's nice to open up a few more sounds!

Overall experience gained - probably a better plan for an HH guitar rather than an HSH one, or perhaps if one is using a neck humbucker that doesn't pretty much sound like a single coil anyway. Regardless my pristine, beautiful, tasteful white strat now looks like frankenstein's monster so I'm happy

[Sponge Monkey]

nice to hear you're happy with the result!
when i have the time, im gonna go in and switch the DPDT switches for regular.
i dont hink im getting the most out of my pickups (probably due to some dodgy wiring) so im just gonna stick to standard, and keep it clean!

[vai n maiden]

I probably wouldn't bother in future for an HSH but it's a nice option with an H-H on a superswitch or what have you. (position 4 on superswitch RGs has neck pickup wired parallel as standard if I recall correctly)