Initial Wiring Diagram

The plan for this guitar is to experiment with a few things, one of which is a wiring setup that isn't too crazy in its final form (may be crazy in intermediate steps) but can handle the tones that I want. This initial wiring diagram is intended to play with a few things, specifically, coil tapping and playing around with resistor values for the volume control. This particular wiring diagram contains no tone circuit, as I find I never use the tone knobs on any of my guitars. The mini switches and the five-way super switch are from AllParts. The volume pot is the 500k volume pot that was already in the guitar. The jack is the standard jack that came with the guitar.

With this setup, other than parallel wired single humbuckers, you can pretty much get all of the options that may end up being interesting to me. My goal was to get a few standard-ish tones:

• Strat neck tone: five-way switch in position 5, switch two in 'up' position
• 335 style neck tone: five-way switch in position 5, switch two in 'down' position
• Telecaster 'twang': five-way switch in positon 3, switch two in 'up' position
• SRV Strat-ish; five-way switch in position 4, switch two in 'down' position
• Mark Knopfler/Sultans of Swing: five-way siwtch in positon 2, switch two in 'down' position

The first switch (the resistor bypass) is based on 'internet wisdom' that you use 250k pots for single coil pickups and 500k pots for humbucker pickups. The switch enables/disables a parallel 500k ohm resistor to create an effective 250k ohm resistor.