The torture never stops

[GratefullyRedd]

Yet another wiring question, this time about jazz-masters. Possibilities for 2 j master pups a volume volume tone, 5 way and 3 way toggle switch.
Try to keep it simple please. :laughing7:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

What do want the positions to do?

 

[tfarny]

There are unlimited possibilites. Are you asking people to start randomly drawing diagrams for you?

 

[GratefullyRedd]

There are unlimited possibilites. Are you asking people to start randomly drawing diagrams for you?

no just examples ways that you could wire it
but if you want to...

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I think with those switches, something similar to B.B. King's Lucille would be possible with a few differences.  Yours would have a master tone instead of 2, Jazzmaster p'ups instead of hums, and the rotary swich would be replaced with 5-way blade switch.  I couldn't draw it out.  A 5-way super-switch may be in order rather than using the Strat-style 5-way blade switch.  More possibilites abound with the super switch.  With 2 single coil pickups w/out coil taps, the middle position of the 3 way toggle is the only place the 5-way would function.  it could be used to series/parallel and phase reverse the relationship of the 2 pickups.  You could even make one position a "no-load position" - that is a position that bypasses all of the resistance and capacitor values of the pots.  Then again no-load pots could do that too.

But again, just suggestions of possibilities, no drawings. 

 

[dbw]

Doesn't a Jazzmaster have 3 little slide switches, no 5-way?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Usually, but these were the controls he listed.  Rather than think of it as a Jazzmaster, I'm thinking of a guitar with Jazzmaster pickups and the controls listed that may or may not be shaped like a Jazzmaster.  If he just straight up asked for a Jazzmaster diagram, there would one post with a link and another thread that ended.

 

[dbw]

OK, then my proposal is hook up the 3-way to switch between your pickups, and throw away the 5-way. 

 

[Dan025]

you say volume volume tone? is that a misprint or do you want 2 volumes?

do you already have the 5way or are you open to options as far as what kind? 5way, 4way, 3way, super switch, megaswitch.....

 

[GratefullyRedd]

you say volume volume tone? is that a misprint or do you want 2 volumes?

do you already have the 5way or are you open to options as far as what kind? 5way, 4way, 3way, super switch, megaswitch.....

Misprint, I thought that jazzmasters had strat controls(v,v,t) for some reason  :icon_tongue:.
Probably just a regular 5-way :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

you say volume volume tone? is that a misprint or do you want 2 volumes?

do you already have the 5way or are you open to options as far as what kind? 5way, 4way, 3way, super switch, megaswitch.....

Misprint, I thought that jazzmasters had strat controls(v,v,t) for some reason  :icon_tongue:.
Probably just a regular 5-way :icon_thumright:

Except Strats don't have controls like that, either <grin>  It's V, T, T, and even that's a little goofy in that you don't get a tone control on your bridge pickup except in position 2, where the middle pickup ends up in parallel with the bridge pickup. Also, both tone controls can effect position 4, where the middle and neck pickups are in parallel. Just about all guitar controls except a single volume and tone are a compromise that skirts the borders of dysfunctional. But, everybody's been living with them so long they don't really notice, and most people don't use the controls much at all anyway, other than the volume knob as an on/off switch.

 

[Dan025]

you say volume volume tone? is that a misprint or do you want 2 volumes?

do you already have the 5way or are you open to options as far as what kind? 5way, 4way, 3way, super switch, megaswitch.....

Misprint, I thought that jazzmasters had strat controls(v,v,t) for some reason  :icon_tongue:.
Probably just a regular 5-way :icon_thumright:

but the 3-way is still in the plans as well?

i keep asking questions cuz there are only so many ways 2 pickups can be combined. and what you want can be done in a couple ways, one is in/out of phase combos and partial out of phase, another is to get noisless or otherwise taped pups that can have multiple levels of output, and yet another is to have one of those switches as a type of tone control using capacitors or a combo of capacitors and inductors for a variety of sounds.

 

[OzziePete]

Doesn't a Jazzmaster have 3 little slide switches, no 5-way?

That's the Jaguar. You can, of course, specify a blank area on the Jazzmaster pickguard and cut a square out for that Jaguar plate if you wish...

Looking at the Warmoth site, they specify two pots for the lower control area, the third hole being for an output jack (which would be a different size to the pot holes).

You can specify a lever switch route and a toggle switch route in the one pickguard.
With one 3 way lever switch and one toggle you can have the usual neck- both - bridge selctions (lever) and use an on-on toggle for series-parallel wiring.

Warmoth don't specify strat pot setup for Jazzmaster pickguards - and maybe you should check the cavity size first before comitting to 3 pots, they may not fit in the tight cavity that's usually routed on a top route Jazzmaster.