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HH, 5-way, 2 toggles, 1V 1T

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Let's say you've got two humbuckers, a 5-way blade switch, two mini toggles, and 1V and 1T knobs.

What would you do?

Without getting into the weeds let's also say noise isn't a major factor (whatever the reason, maybe good noise gate, low gain amp, clean electrical environment). In case this affects anyone's choices, let's say it's a 24-fret neck so the neck HB is shifted accordingly.
 
As a starting point I'll say the Suhr Pete Thorn HH wiring seems really versatile and easy to me:

1: Bridge humbucker
2: Both humbuckers' inner coils ("Strat notch")
3: Both humbuckers
4: Neck humbucker (as opposed to typically placing this in position 5)
5: Neck outer coil ("Strat neck" sound)

Push/pull: Series/parallel switch for bridge humbucker

That's quick access to all your most in-demand sounds.

Overall I can't think of an improvement on that 5-way layout, but curious to hear other ideas.

With the addition of a second toggle or second push/pull, there's three key approaches I can think of:
1) Use second toggle as a series/parallel switch for the neck humbucker, mirroring the application of the bridge push/pull in the Suhr PT
2) Use the second toggle to make available "binary switching" of the bridge humbucker, where the two switches can give access to either coil, series humbucker, or parallel humbucker. This can make available a Tele-style hot single tone. This might be most interesting with very hot bridge humbuckers, where one coil could give a convincing Tele tone, or parallel mode could be a good low-wind PAF tone
3) Use the second toggle as a simultaneous series override and phase switch. I don't normally find out of phase sounds to be super useful, but wired in series the usability improves. Another bonus to this could be using the neckward coils of both pickups, which would be hum-cancelling if wired out of phase.

Downsides: no availability of the other hum-cancelling single coils option of both pickups' outer coils (i.e. "Tele middle" tone)
 
Oof. Sell the guitar to someone with a bigger brain than mine, probably. That’s too many buttons.
I mean, that's not more controls than a regular Les Paul (and yes I know the current EMG's are a no-no around this particular question)

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Personally I find I prefer push-pulls over toggle switches, largely because its intuitive that "down" is sort of default expected behavior. Toggles are weirdly more ambiguous in that you have to remember which direction is what.
 
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I'd think a 5 way Super Switch would get all kinds of combinations from 2 HB's. Not sure how the 2 mini toggles would come into play.

I found Guitar Electronics to have some great wiring diagrams, along with Dimarzio.

One miniswitch is a kill switch and the other controls the LEDs that are obviously going to be installed on the guitar ;)
 
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