PLEASE HELP?!? Humbucker Series/Parallel wiring push/pull

[guitartom]

Original Schematics do look to be doing the same thing.

One is keeping 1 pickup to one pot where second is doing the switching across two pots. I would think the first would be a cleaner setup.

Don't know if you have the capability to use. Seymour Duncan does make those pretty cool Triple Shot mounting rings which makes splitting, in out of phase etc. look pretty damn easy. Never tried them myself.

Thank you very much for the confirmation on this.  Those mounting rings looks pretty sweet but doesn't look like it would work on the guitar im working with.  I'm doing this to a 72 tele deluxe so there is no mounting ring used just the pickguard.

Im digging those things too...I know they wouldn't fit on our Teles as is but I'd be curious if they'd still work/look sorta cool if you cut the three sides off leaving just that end with the chip/wiring thing attached; then screwed it on to the pickguard with the regular harnessing screws...it'd at least look kind of tech-y and unique. The width of the harnessing screws would just need to match up in width to our Teles on just one side. That I would do, only $25...

I looked into using one of these for me green soloist.  Most people claimed they were cheaply made.  In the end I wend with an on-on-on toggle switch.  Wiring can be found on duncan or dimarzio site.  The switch lets you select humbucker parallel, humbucker series, or single coil (only one of your choice).  You could add one of these switches to a telecaster plate very easily. Just buy a spare plate and drill for the switch.  It is important when buying your switch to ensure it is on-on-on and not on-off-on.

I looked to see if I could get the same function in a push-pull pot and I couldn't find one.  I could only find on-on which will let you do any 2 of the 3 options.  I went this route with the neon soloist I built.  That one has a single volume pot which allows switching the humbucker coils between parallel and series.

 

[veets987]

Ugh...yeah I know the feeling. As if there isn't enough going on already, waiting for awesome presents in the mail...suddenly have the patience of a real problem child.

Anyway, hope you hear back with some helpful news. Update us at some point as now I'm curious too.

Heard back and he told me to ship it to his house and he would give it a look and fix whatever is wrong (if anything lol).  Knowing my luck everything will be fine and it was some sort of screw-up on my end lol.  Let everyone know when i get it back.  Hopefully by the end of the month..

 

[BobbyJohnson]

Damn, well I guess I'll hope it's messed up. If he got it and found it was fine that'd be an ultimate oops :/ From what you'd said though it sounds like something was shorting or disconnected, I'm no expert. Good luck!

 

[BobbyJohnson]

...so the thread doesn't die/fade away for the next month I'm hoping someone out there can help me with this...

I have a tapped version of the SD Quarter Pound bridge pickup. I want to install it with a blend/spin a tap in the tone position but cant figure it out. Should be simple. As we're dealing with Tele Customs/Deluxes the guitar has individual vol and tone like an LP. All discussion, diagrams, etc. I could find deal with tapping a single coil PU like this on a standard Tele so I have no clue.

I'm aware of two things, it can be done on the already installed tone pot or, more preferably, with my StewMac blend pot (has two tiers of lugs and center detent which could be helpful) Pictured below.

Pic 1: Quarter Pound - Black wire ground, white is full output, red is tapped
Pic 2: StewMac blend pot http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics,_pickups/Potentiometers/Alpha_Blend_Pots.html?actn=100101&xst=2&xsr=i-4137&tab=Instructions
Pic 3: example I found StewMac pot on left, standard on right

Those vague, simple diagrams I get but when I need to include hook ups to the individual Vol pot and the 3-way switch I get kind of lost...any help MUCH appreciated

 

[guitartom]

What are you trying to blend?  the full output with the neck pickup or are you trying to blend the tapped and full output?

 

[BobbyJohnson]

Yeah just blending the full and tapped output...

 

[BobbyJohnson]

What are you trying to blend?  the full output with the neck pickup or are you trying to blend the tapped and full output?

The guitar is setup like a les paul. Just want to blend my bridge pickup output between full and the tapped (Quarter Pound Single Coil for Tele). I've seen wiring diagrams but only for traditional Tele setups and being a noob here wasn't sure how to wire it having those differences...

 

[guitartom]

I would wire each hot to the ouside lugs and the output to the middle lug which would go to the volume to see how that sounds.  You are then controlling the output between full and tapped.  I would use a 250K pot.  I've never done this, so I can't offer actual experience.  I have used a switch (or push-pull pot) in the past.