Grounding Warmoth 3-way toggle

[Mark Anderson]

I ordered the 3-way toggle for my VIP 2 P90 pickup project. All of the diagrams and videos show an output lug on one side and 2 input lugs and a middle ground lug on the other side. The Warmoth switch has 4 lugs on the input side. Are the middle 2 for the ground wire? Am I supposed to bend them together?

 

[Cagey]

No, the thick center piece that is part of the switch "chassis", if you will, is what you would ground. From the picture, it looks like the single lug on the opposite side of the body. The four terminals on facing side in the picture are the contact wafers, and in the case of a two pickup configuration, you'd likely want to connect the two center terminals together and make that the "hot" to your vol/tone circuitry, while the two outside terminals would each get the "hot" from each of your two pickups.

You can get an idea what I'm talking about from these pics...

It's a sideways "L" configuration of the same switch you have.