Hello,

I have done quite a bit of reading so far and have not found exactly what I need. I am fixing up a RS-440 with a 5 way switch and push-push pot for a friend and need a wiring diagram like it was originally setup with. He had someone mess with it a while back and it has no push switch anymore and would like it to be like it was. I have a new push switch on the way. Here is a drawing of what I have to work with. Could someone connect the lines or point me to the correct drawing or information. Thanks in advance.

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This setup will give you:

1- bridge full
2-bridge and middle full
3-middle full
4- middle and neck full
4-neck full

push/push will split the bridge or neck pups depending on what you have selected.

This setup will NOT be noise cancelling in positions 2 & 4 if the split is active. It WILL be noise cancelling if split is not active.

Wire all grounds to the back of the volume pot, the tone pot, or both. Be sure you have a jumper between the backs of each pot (indicated with the green line)

Great. Thanks for the quick reply RGTFanatic.
I will give this a try and see what he thinks.
Is this how the guitar was setup originally or a way to set it up.

I couldn't find a schematic for the 440 HSS. This is the diagram I use for all of my guitars that are HSS (actually HHH- the two singles are stacked hums)

Where dose the white wire for the middle pickup go

It appears to go to ground in this schematic. The black for the middle p/u is not used as the middle is never split.

Hi 1F, I am trying to rewire my RS440 SSH as per the original specs which was a coil tap on the hotrail bridge Pickup.
The funny thing is that the hotrail pickup is a two conductor wire, so how can this coil tap the pickup with only two conductors (one hot and shield)? Im dying to get this finished.....I love these guitars, never liked the fender strats though i love most of their other guitars, for me if I have to play a strat its gonna be a RS. Thanks, Quentin

Hello Hello
I have a similar problem as the one discussed in this thread. Maybe you can help me.

I have this Ibanez RG440P built in 1987, the pickup distribution is of course HSS.

Hummbucker-Vintage / SingleCoil Super 8 / SingleCoil Super 8
5 way Switch , Master Volume and Push Push Tone.

https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/1987_Series_catalog?file=1987_Roadstar_RG440P_deal er_sheet.png

The cabling is absolutely devastated and there is no way to find the original circuit over the internet.
Your picture gave me hope, but the JPG is without content.
Do you still have the circuit somewhere, or the guitar with it?

Before you ask, no, there is no identical circuit in a more recent guitar for which there would be a circuit diagram.

Best greetings from Austria