Baritone 7 String Ordered

[bvdrummer]

Hello all. I am a new to Warmoth and just placed my first order! Here are the specs:

28-5/8" Baritone 7 String Flat Top
Black Korina body (no lam top) with contoured heel
Wenge neck with Pau Ferro fretboard, stainless 6100 frets
Hardtail Bridge
5 way switch with 1V 2T

The plans:
Direct mount Dimarzio Crunch Lab / Liquifire pickups
not 100% on how I'll wire the 5 positions
Sperzel Locking Tuners
All black hardware
I'll do a Tru Oil satin finish on the body, leave the neck raw.

There are not many Warmoth 7 stringers out there (especially baritones) so I'll try to take lots of pics of the build progress. The wait begins!

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Good combo of specs.

If you use a 5 way mega-switch you can get a good variety of switching options wired simply.

1-neck-Humbucking.
2-neck split
3-neck/bridge split-Hum cancelling
4-bridge split
5-neck-humbucking

If interested, I can post a link for this for Dimarzio pickups.  I got it in a .pdf from Steve Blucher a few years back.

 

[bvdrummer]

Thanks, yeah I have downloaded a bunch of wiring schematics from Dimarzio and guitarelectronics. The problem is I can't decide which one to use lol.

I definitely want:
1: Bridge Humbucker
3: Both Humbuckers
5: Neck Humbucker

I currently have a Carvin 7 string with a 3 way toggle and 2 individual coil taps for each pickup (2 humbuckers). I don't really ever use the bridge split by itself. So for positions 2 and 4 I'm leaning towards neck split and neck/bridge split hum cancelling. But I also recently discovered neck split + bridge humbucker and that's pretty cool for light crunch. I want to keep the wiring to just the 5 way switch, so I need to pick the 2 most useful out of these 3 sounds to be in positions 2 and 4. I know to do these I'll need a super-switch instead of the basic 5-way switch.

The funny thing is that in terms of time, I use the bridge humbucker about 80% and the neck humbucker about 19%, and all the other sounds only 1% of the time.  :laughing7: So I'm kind of obsessing over nothing.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

You might then consider the JPM wire scheme:
1: neck-humbucking
2: neck+bridge split/Hum Cancelling
3: Bridge-Humbucking.