Hi folks,
My first post here. I have built 5 Warmoths, starting with my first about 10 years ago. I thought I might share the unique wiring plan that I have in that first guitar. It is intuitive to use, yet very flexible with more tonal variety than the average dual HB circuit.
Instead of the usual simple coil splitters, this circuit uses a 3-way (on / on / on) mini toggle for each pickup. This allows selection of the inner coil, outer coil, or both in series - for each pickup. You can use each pickup as a standard humbucker, or a single coil located in one of two places. You can get closer to Strat and Tele tones because you can approximate the single coil locations a bit better than with a fixed coil split setting. And it's cool to use either pickup in single coil mode with two different flavors. Yes, you can hear the difference between the two coil settings!
This guitar was built with two individual volumes and a master volume, because it's warm enough to not need tone controls. You could also build it with two tones and a master volume, or two volumes and a master tone - if you like.
Enough words. Here is a diagram:
http://rogerplacer.com/guitars/img/RPSpecialWiring.jpg
And here is my YouTube video demonstrating the guitar. Some of you may have seen it judging by all the hits it gets:
[youtube=425,355]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iVnZLuOTP_0[/youtube]
Hope this helps someone or provides food for thought. Peace!
Roger
My first post here. I have built 5 Warmoths, starting with my first about 10 years ago. I thought I might share the unique wiring plan that I have in that first guitar. It is intuitive to use, yet very flexible with more tonal variety than the average dual HB circuit.
Instead of the usual simple coil splitters, this circuit uses a 3-way (on / on / on) mini toggle for each pickup. This allows selection of the inner coil, outer coil, or both in series - for each pickup. You can use each pickup as a standard humbucker, or a single coil located in one of two places. You can get closer to Strat and Tele tones because you can approximate the single coil locations a bit better than with a fixed coil split setting. And it's cool to use either pickup in single coil mode with two different flavors. Yes, you can hear the difference between the two coil settings!
This guitar was built with two individual volumes and a master volume, because it's warm enough to not need tone controls. You could also build it with two tones and a master volume, or two volumes and a master tone - if you like.
Enough words. Here is a diagram:
http://rogerplacer.com/guitars/img/RPSpecialWiring.jpg
And here is my YouTube video demonstrating the guitar. Some of you may have seen it judging by all the hits it gets:
[youtube=425,355]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iVnZLuOTP_0[/youtube]
Hope this helps someone or provides food for thought. Peace!
Roger