Building a Djent Lefty Guitar: Best Passive Pick Ups?

[Simon Barden]

The Jackson already has the pickups being coil split.



You can do that with a suitable 5-way switch and 4-wire conductors on the pickups. Can't find a diagram on the web so far though, but WierdBits should be able to come up with a suitable diagram.

But that doesn't give you any neck- or bridge-only single coil only pickup options. Personally, I probably wouldn't bother with that style of guitar and those pickups, but if you want it as versatile as possible, then it is probably achievable, but it will interfere with the 5-way switching when operated and you may end up with silence in some positions.

Dropping the Jackson position 2 and 4 options, but instead having them as bridge single coil or neck single coil, then you can use this BK wiring diagram.

https://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk...ch_9a8dd79.pdf

On the Jackson control system, the tone control pot is a push/pull one where the pull position disconnects the tone circuit for a brighter sound. You can do this more simply with a no-load pot.

[jlor13]

Yeah, wanting to get as many options as possible is a very ambitious. Specially for someone who's never done this before.

I saw that they have the 1 volume 1 tone push pot but for a 3 way switch (Which I would presume would give me positions 1,3 and 5 from your diagram).

They also have the PRS way of doing it 2 humbuckers, 1 volume, 1 tone and a 5 way switch but I don't know the difference between the push pull pot and this way.

Would the no-load pot give me the same versatility as the push pull pot?

Thanks again.

But would love a reference because I don't quite understand all of the diagram and it doesn't say "you need this hardware to do so". I know it is an ambitious feet, but really wanna get it done.

[WeirdBits]

You can do that with a suitable 5-way switch and 4-wire conductors on the pickups. Can't find a diagram on the web so far though, but WierdBits(???) should be able to come up with a suitable diagram...

Adding an extra push/pull will allow the full Jackson layout on the 5-way superswitch plus give you the single split coil option in positions 1 and 5. I can draw it up if needed.