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christ462000

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Hi all
I am thinking of building a Warmoth strat with 3 pickups,Neck and middle are Seymour Duncan little 59 and Bridge is Dimarzio Dp100.What i want is to coil split the neck little 59 and the Dp100.I will have a 5 way selector,2 vloume and 1 master tone,also i want a treble bleed mod as well.Can anyone help me find a wiring diagram for this.
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Seems like you could achive this by running the 59 and the DP100 to miniswitches or push/pull pots to achieve the single/hb switching, but a fun question is, have you heard how those pickups sound when split?  You may be devising a wiring scheme that may not give you the expected result.  A lot of humbuckers don't really sound that awesome split.  If you're dead set on it, I think  you can just take the pickup lead and run it to the miniswitch configured for coil split vs. humbucking, and then take the output from that and wire to the usual location on the 5-way switch.  Obviously if you use miniswitches, you'll need to drill your pickguard for them, but if you use push-pull pots you need not make any extra holes.

The dimarzio and duncan pages will show you lots of diagrams.  This one is from Dimarzio, and is for a three-bucker guitar with coil splitting for all three running through a single push-pull pot and 5-way switching for pups:

http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/default/files/diagrams/3h5w1ppvol1ppt_addbridgesplitall.pdf

This one also uses a 5-way switch, and gives you separate push-pull pot control over neck and bridge, and the mid doesn't change:

http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/default/files/diagrams/3h5w1ppv1ppt_dualsnd.pdf

You'd need to work out the color coding for the duncan pickups but otherwise the principle is the same for any four-lead humbucking pickup.


 
Unless you're in love with those '59s or already have them I wouldn't really bother. They do not split very well, just not enough coil. If you must use them go for series/parallel switching instead. If you're looking for chunk and clarity with some sparkle I'd go with some SD Quarter Pounders. A full size Alnico II is a great option for the neck and splits very nicely. Those baby HB's are more of a last resort than an initial go to. That's my experience and opinion anyway. Good Luck!! :eek:ccasion14:
 
Splitting pickups is a gamble occasionally you get a pickup that sounds great split like the Norton. that was a pleasant surprise for me. ) but most often you get something sort of anemic. In my last build I had a switch for a universal slpt but the neck HB sounded weak split the Bridge was aces so I just have that switch just for the bridge. I get a great tele with a humbucker neck sound when I split the bridge so its all good.
 
I've yet to find a humbucker that can sound "truly single coil" when split on its own.  On occasion, one will sound ok when split up next to another pickup, like positions 2 & 4 on an Ibanez or something similar, or the Petrucci "split inner coils" on the center position of two humbuckers. 

That's the best version I've found.

EMG's 89 does well, but it is a single coil in that mode.
 
The coils in humbuckers are smaller since they're wired in series as part of the trick to get the "humbucking" effect. The series wiring means their output is additive, so you need smaller coils or the output will be far too high. When you split a humbucker trying to get a single coil sound, you not only get a weaker output from a smaller coil, it's affected by its mounting. Eddy currents in the baseplate, perhaps in a cover, extraneous magnets/pole pieces in close proximity, etc. That's why they rarely sound good. It's a weak coil in a bad configuration.
 
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