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3-way, 8-pole switch for Humbuckers?

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I have kind of an unusual wiring situation.

I have two humbuckers, and two 3-way (on-off-on), 8-pole switches (4 on each side). See below for an example.

I'm not sure how to wire them. Ideally, what I would like is for the neck to be:

1: Series
0: Off
-1: Parallel

And for the bridge to be:

1: Series
0: Off
-1: Series (phase switch)


Is this possible? Anyone know where I can get a wiring diagram for this?


These switches are normally used in Fender Mustangs, but since those are single coils, those schematics are of limited use.
 
There's some "switch theory" here:
http://www.1728.com/guitar.htm

It would seem to me that the extra lugs would be a ground? Do you have a multi-meter, or some means of figuring out which lug combinations are transmitting open juice? Umm, wire some alligator clips to a headphone-out cord, plug it into a tape deck, wire some alligator clips to an amp jack... etc. There might be something yielded by a search of TDPRI, the telecaster forum... there ain't no MDPRI, alas.
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/
 
The guitar is at my luthier at the moment, so I can't test its power output. I just don't want him to charge me for the time to draw up the schematic.  :-\

Here's the normal way of wiring the mustang, if that helps anyone figure out how these switches work.

403px-Mustang.jpg



I was thinking about it last night, and since the original Mustang switches were on-of-phase, I could just use that diagram for the bridge switch...but I'm still kind of lost for parallel/series.

I just need to transpose this...

humbuck8.gif


 
Would it be as simple as the pic I attached?


After spending some more time looking at it, I figured out that this won't work. The neck pickup would always be on (it would be series-coil tap-parallel).
 
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