Snake101st
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Hey how's it going?
Totally new to building here, so please bare with me
I just bought a Warmoth mooncaster neck, Rosser starcaster looking body, mastery bridge + trem, etc but am a bit confused at how to best wire it up once I get there.
The pickups I got are a McNelly stagger swagger v1 in the neck (vintage double conductor, didn't realize that when ordering) and an OX4 low wind humbucker w A5 (4 wire/conductor). The body is routed for a 3 way toggle and a volume and tone pot, and I didn't have an option there really.
My question is, is it possible to wire it so the neck pickup acts as a standard pickup with no options, and the bridge is partial coil split using the Fralin/PRS method w a resistor on one push pull DPDT pot and potentially have the two pickups wired in series or parallel on the other push pull DPDT pot?
Or because the neck pickup is double conductor and needs to have the outer braiding act as the ground and soldered to the pot + just use the hot wire to make it active, are my options limited? I'd be ok with only being able to partially split the bridge 4 wire pup and just not make use of the other push/pull, unless anyone has other ideas for what I can do with just one 4 wire pickup and 1 vol / 1 tone.
If anyone has wiring diagrams that'd match up with what Im saying too, I'd really appreciate it - just tried looking for about two hours and every diagram seems to assume that both pickups are 4 wire. Really not advanced enough to mod the vintage double conductor (where the braiding is the ground) to work like a 4 wire, so that's out heh
Here's the Fralin method I mentioned:
https://humbuckersoup.com/lindy-fralin-partial-tap-resistor/
Thanks!
Totally new to building here, so please bare with me

I just bought a Warmoth mooncaster neck, Rosser starcaster looking body, mastery bridge + trem, etc but am a bit confused at how to best wire it up once I get there.
The pickups I got are a McNelly stagger swagger v1 in the neck (vintage double conductor, didn't realize that when ordering) and an OX4 low wind humbucker w A5 (4 wire/conductor). The body is routed for a 3 way toggle and a volume and tone pot, and I didn't have an option there really.
My question is, is it possible to wire it so the neck pickup acts as a standard pickup with no options, and the bridge is partial coil split using the Fralin/PRS method w a resistor on one push pull DPDT pot and potentially have the two pickups wired in series or parallel on the other push pull DPDT pot?
Or because the neck pickup is double conductor and needs to have the outer braiding act as the ground and soldered to the pot + just use the hot wire to make it active, are my options limited? I'd be ok with only being able to partially split the bridge 4 wire pup and just not make use of the other push/pull, unless anyone has other ideas for what I can do with just one 4 wire pickup and 1 vol / 1 tone.
If anyone has wiring diagrams that'd match up with what Im saying too, I'd really appreciate it - just tried looking for about two hours and every diagram seems to assume that both pickups are 4 wire. Really not advanced enough to mod the vintage double conductor (where the braiding is the ground) to work like a 4 wire, so that's out heh
Here's the Fralin method I mentioned:
https://humbuckersoup.com/lindy-fralin-partial-tap-resistor/
Thanks!