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First time wiring. This look okay?

doctorpunk

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I did a pre-wired assembly for my first build so I've never laid out my own wiring before. That was a fun build, but the guitar I'm building out now is a little more bespoke. Does this diagram look correct?

Three pickups (I guess they're all technically humbuckers since the middle p90 is noiseless). Each is controlled by Jaguar style on/off switches. All have an independent volume control. No tone knobs. All run through a kill switch before the output jack.

I looked at a bunch of different wiring diagrams for guitars that do what I want and - I'll admit it - I even asked ChatGPT. I just want to make sure this looks right by asking actual humans with experience. I apologize for the rudimentary drawing, I made it in Powerpoint.
Three Pickup Wiring Plan.001.jpeg
 
Take each pickup to its volume then to the switch panel. Also in this case, if all the switches are off you get a kill switch so do you need the kill switch too?
 
I'm not completely sure, but I think you will lose quite a bit of treble with all those pots in parallel and it will get even worse, if you turn down the volume.

Like @supertruper1988 just wrote I too would wire the pickups to their individual volumes (to the outer lug!!!) and from there to the switch.

From there you could lead a single output wire to the killswitch and the output jack.
 
Take each pickup to its volume then to the switch panel. Also in this case, if all the switches are off you get a kill switch so do you need the kill switch too?
That’s Gibson-style, right? I was thinking that would break the independent volume control with parallel blending, which I was hoping to go with.

I plan to use the kill switch more as a stutter switch. Easier than trying to rapidly flip all three on and off.
 
I'm not completely sure, but I think you will lose quite a bit of treble with all those pots in parallel and it will get even worse, if you turn down the volume.

Like @supertruper1988 just wrote I too would wire the pickups to their individual volumes (to the outer lug!!!) and from there to the switch.

From there you could lead a single output wire to the killswitch and the output jack.
I thought I read somewhere that treble loss only happens if pots are wired in parallel to the pickups themselves. I thought this design would isolate the pots after the switches and keep them from parallel.

Wiring is so confusing!
 
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