HSH wiring question

[bcrich72]

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.

 

[stratamania]

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.

 

[bcrich72]

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the information.
I am new to wiring a guitar and am wanting to try different configurations to get some practice in soldering and learning about the components in the guitar.

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.

This is exactly how the humbuckers are. Would you explain why that makes them not suitable for wiring in series? Just so I can get an understanding of how all of this works.
Eventually I will put a super switch in one of the guitars. But for this one I have a 5-way switch with 8 lugs and a 3-way on-off-on switch. I was hoping to be able to use the 3-way like this; in 1 position neck and bridge in series, the off position everything is the standard strat wiring, and the other on position would be neck and bridge in parallel. Or one position neck and bridge in parallel, off standard wiring and the other on position for all 3 pickups.