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    Max suggested having it so that you have it so that you get the rails in series, rails in parallel and the single coil on its own. Or you could try one of the blades plus the single coil for a mismatched humbucker, though there's no guarantee that it will be particularly quiet.

    The single coil and the outer blade (Coils 1 and 3) would give a fatter humbucker sound than twin blades would, but unfortunately the north/south magnet polarity means that you'd need to use the inside blade and the single coil (coils 2 and 3) to get a humbucking configuration. This would give a slightly wider gap between the coils than you get with the blades, and for the bridge pickup, the sensed string area is a bit further away from the bridge, so the lower harmonics of notes will be a bit stronger too, making it sound a bit fatter.

    The thoughts of having all three coils in non-humbucking series at a 20k-ish resistance filled him with horror (and he has designed a couple of pickups for Fender and Kent Armstrong).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simon Barden View Post
    Max suggested having it so that you have it so that you get the rails in series, rails in parallel and the single coil on its own. Or you could try one of the blades plus the single coil for a mismatched humbucker, though there's no guarantee that it will be particularly quiet.

    The single coil and the outer blade (Coils 1 and 3) would give a fatter humbucker sound than twin blades would, but unfortunately the north/south magnet polarity means that you'd need to use the inside blade and the single coil (coils 2 and 3) to get a humbucking configuration. This would give a slightly wider gap between the coils than you get with the blades, and for the bridge pickup, the sensed string area is a bit further away from the bridge, so the lower harmonics of notes will be a bit stronger too, making it sound a bit fatter.

    The thoughts of having all three coils in non-humbucking series at a 20k-ish resistance filled him with horror (and he has designed a couple of pickups for Fender and Kent Armstrong).
    Cheers Simon, ill post you a pic of my wiring diagram and see if you can take a look at it and maybe draw me the variation that your mate max suggests, thats if its not too much trouble or just tell me what to do on mine and ill try to do the rewiring, thanks.

    Edit..... Heres a pic, volume wires need correcting though
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    Last edited by nitroburner1000; 05-12-2016 at 09:04 AM.
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