Jumble Jumble
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So you may remember from my last project I did some slightly unorthodox wiring - using a stripboard and connectors to allow me to build the circuit without the pickups connected, and then just screw the pickups in when they arrived. I'm doing some more unusual wiring in my next project.
I'm building a two-humbucker tele and I'm using a superswitch to get the following:
1- bridge humbucker
2- bridge split and neck split, in series
3- bridge and neck humbuckers together
4- bridge split and neck split, in parallel
5- neck humbucker
I'm also putting in a treble bleed on the volume control.
The pickups are a Little 59 for Tele Bridge pickup and a 59N neck pickup.
This is the wiring diagram I made to work from for this circuit (IGNORE the tone cap value on this, I'm actually going to use 0.022uF):
I don't like how crowded and messy everything's going to be around the volume and tone pots, with way too many wires having to go into the lugs on the volume pot and lots of little wires everywhere. I like to keep things tidy, and if at all possible, have one or two at the most wires going to each connector.
I designed this little tidier-upper using a piece of stripboard:
And I've now built that. The black grounding wire is a single wire that connects two lugs on the switch, then goes across the volume pot, through the ground lug on that pot, into the tone circuit and then will go out to the jack. When the pickups go in they'll be grounded to the backs of one pot each, I expect. Same with the bridge tone connector. Not all the jumpers are in place on the super switch yet.
Here's how it looks:
Much more manageable and tidy I think.
I'm building a two-humbucker tele and I'm using a superswitch to get the following:
1- bridge humbucker
2- bridge split and neck split, in series
3- bridge and neck humbuckers together
4- bridge split and neck split, in parallel
5- neck humbucker
I'm also putting in a treble bleed on the volume control.
The pickups are a Little 59 for Tele Bridge pickup and a 59N neck pickup.
This is the wiring diagram I made to work from for this circuit (IGNORE the tone cap value on this, I'm actually going to use 0.022uF):
I don't like how crowded and messy everything's going to be around the volume and tone pots, with way too many wires having to go into the lugs on the volume pot and lots of little wires everywhere. I like to keep things tidy, and if at all possible, have one or two at the most wires going to each connector.
I designed this little tidier-upper using a piece of stripboard:
And I've now built that. The black grounding wire is a single wire that connects two lugs on the switch, then goes across the volume pot, through the ground lug on that pot, into the tone circuit and then will go out to the jack. When the pickups go in they'll be grounded to the backs of one pot each, I expect. Same with the bridge tone connector. Not all the jumpers are in place on the super switch yet.
Here's how it looks:
Much more manageable and tidy I think.
