Help On A Specific Type Of Wiring Please

[Bondservant]

Hey folks!


I have a Strat style guitar that I want to rewire with Wilkinson hot rail humbuckers. The way I want to wire it is to have a volume pot for each pickup, and a single pot to control the tone for all three pickups. Additionally, I want to do away with the 5-way switch altogether, and put 3 small toggle switches in it's place - an on/off switch for each of the 3 pickups so that any 1, 2, or all 3 of the pickups can be on or off at any time. Can anyone point me to a diagram showing how this should be wired? Thanks!

Here are the 3 pickups:

Neck

Wilkinson Neck Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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Middle

Wilkinson Middle Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Middle Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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Bridge

Wilkinson Back Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Bridge Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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[Georg_Figel]

I don't have a diagram, but just think of it as 3 of the same circuits in parallel + one master tone.

Which means: 3x(Pickup -> volume -> toggle -> to master tone) -> output

Of course, one wire of the pickup goes to GND (ground)
The volume pot has one leg going to GND
The master tone has one leg attached to a capacitor going to GND
The output has one connection to GND

Maybe this description is confusing. But you might use a "one pickup" wiring diagram, except you add a on/off toggle in the signal path. You repeat the wiring for the other pickups. And then run all 3 through the master tone and to the output.

 

[bruce bennett]

look up a Fender Jazz bass circuit and just add in a 3rdvolume pot and viola! you have exactly what your asking for.

and if it was ME.. I would make all 3 volume pots push pulls so I could access some very cool single coil options on those rail buckers..

 

[Rented Mule]

Hey folks!


I have a Strat style guitar that I want to rewire with Wilkinson hot rail humbuckers. The way I want to wire it is to have a volume pot for each pickup, and a single pot to control the tone for all three pickups. Additionally, I want to do away with the 5-way switch altogether, and put 3 small toggle switches in it's place - an on/off switch for each of the 3 pickups so that any 1, 2, or all 3 of the pickups can be on or off at any time. Can anyone point me to a diagram showing how this should be wired? Thanks!

Here are the 3 pickups:

Neck

Wilkinson Neck Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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Middle

Wilkinson Middle Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Middle Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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Bridge

Wilkinson Back Low Gauss Black Hot Rail Ceramic Single Coil Sized Humbucker Bridge Pickup for Strat Electric Guitar | Reverb

For many style electric guitar need single coil sized humbucker pickup, neck / middle / bridge position. Typical guitar model includes Fender/Squier Strat. Genuine Wilkinson parts. It can fit a normal Strat pickguard directly, wax potted. This pickup has no noise but with a narrow focused sound...

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Hmmmm…would you need the toggle switches at all if you can simply turn the volume all the way down? Might offer some really interesting pickup blending options as well.