Does this look sensible?

[fender3x]

Hi G-Axe,

I have never tried to do this, and would be curious if anyone else has. It would be nice to cheat and look at someone else's wiring scheme.

The problem that I keep running into as I run it through my head is that the signal path in series humbucker goes through both coils. Hot is the black wire and ground is green, but the red and white have to connect to complete the circuit. Otherwise neither coil is going to make any noise. Turning down one coil diminishes signal moving through the circuit even if the other coil is at 100%. There may be a way to do it, but it's not obvious to my uneducated brain.

I also wonder how worth doing this is. My experience is mostly with basses, so YMMV. I have a bass where I can turn put each pickup in Single-coil-bridge, series, parallel, and Single-coil-neck. There is a marked difference between series, parallel and single coil. But blindfolded I am not sure I could tell the difference between SC-neck and SC-bridge.

Please be aware that I have no EE training whatsoever!

[G-Axe]

I also wonder how worth doing this is.

Oh, it's absolutely not, but I'm doing a $0 build and this is what I've got lying around - so I want to get creative.

The problem that I keep running into as I run it through my head is that the signal path in series humbucker goes through both coils. Hot is the black wire and ground is green, but the red and white have to connect to complete the circuit. Otherwise neither coil is going to make any noise. Turning down one coil diminishes signal moving through the circuit even if the other coil is at 100%. There may be a way to do it, but it's not obvious to my uneducated brain.

I might just have to wire it up and see how it goes. By my logic it should work at the extents:

- At full right, the white is grounded, and the black goes to output. Green is also grounded, red goes nowhere.
- At full left, green is grounded and red goes to output. Red also goes to white, but black goes nowhere.
- At centre, green is grounded, red goes to white, black goes to output. Red also has a jumper going nowhere.

And I guess it's there "nowheres" that I'm unsure about in EE terms. My assumption is that if the current has nowhere to flow, that branch is null and void. Does that sound right?

There's obviously going to be all sorts of weirdness when the red is blended between white and output, but I can live with that.



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