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HSH wiring question

bcrich72

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HI, this may not be a normal setup, but I wanted to try it just to see how it sounds. I have a strat style guitar that I'm piecing together. I put a humbucker in the bridge and neck positions and a single coil in the middle position. It has the standard 5-way switch. I want to wire it so that I can select the bridge and neck pickups together and add a 3-way switch to control the bridge/neck selection to be in series or parallel. I hope that makes sense. Can someone please provide a wiring diagram for how that can be done?
Note: The coils on these humbuckers cannot be split.
There are separate volume pots for the neck and bridge pickups and 1 tone pot.
Thanks in advance for anyone's help.
 
To start with, you need a 5 way super switch to be able to get neck and bridge together for it to work in the middle position of the switch which is what I assume you would want to achieve.

Note: The coils on these humbuckers cannot be split.

Having a 3 way switch to have the option of putting two humbuckers in series with each other is not generally a useful tone. Also, if the pickups do not have a separate shield wire and are of the type with a hot wire surrounded by a braided ground, then the pickups would not be suitable to be wired in series.
 
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