Switching question for build

[TBurst Std]

OK work and project load is finally coming down. As you may know I have a VIP build that is 3 years delayed. What you don't know is the Tele build that is 7 years delayed LOL.
So anyways I am thinking through this and have a Q.

It's routed SC neck and bridge. Already have a Zhang bridge pup for it. It's the 2nd Paul Bunyan ever built. Except with a twist. It's wound almost to P90 specs with a tap to normal Tele spec.

So I am thinking a Zhang neck pup. Now I would like to have B, BN parallel, BN series and neck. And 3 of those 4 with the option of tapped or not on the bridge.

Thinking the best way to do this is a 4 way Tele with a micro switch for the tap.

Your thoughts recommendations.  Maybe have the tap on the 4 way and have the micro control parallel vs series. Doable?

 

[DavyDave53]

Personally, I like to keep it simply.  I would go with 1 Volume, 1 Tone, and a 5 Position Switch.  I'd have a switching tone knob provide the coil tapping. 

After the pickups are installed in the guitar I would determine which tones were usable, or desirable and adjust the wiring plan then as needed.  Who knows, maybe a 3 Position Switch is all that you need and there is no need to coil tap?

 

[TBurst Std]

Oh I already know that I want the tap on the bridge. It offers me an almost P90 and a std tele bridge. It's adding in the series switching.

 

[Fat Pete]

I think it would make more sense to have the tap on the separate switch so you have the choice of tapped/untapped bridge in the 2 B+N positions. I'm not sure if you could make that work the other way.

 

[Dan025]

there are 4-wat tele diagrams. should be easy to find. the neck pickup needs a light modification for these. you need to ground the cover seperately. this mod can also be done to the bridge p/up but the schematic would be different. since it's the bridge pup that will likely be grounded all the time and the neck that needs just the cover constanly grounded while the 2 pickup leads will go to the switch the tap is just a matter of grounding the tap wire. alternatively you can shunt it to the signal lead of the pickup before the 4-way switch, you might get 3 sounds from the tappable pickup if you wire it right and it's not a tapped dead center of the coil. but that's a different story.

 

[TBurst Std]

Thanks. I have see the parallel series thing done both with a 4 way and also a micro. The neck pup will not have a cover, so should be good there.