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[Simon Barden]

You could just have 3x volume pots, no tone, so you select the pickups via the volume pots. But then you run into problems with parallel pot resistances to ground, so you’s probably need 500k pots for the single coil and a 1Meg for the humbucker.

It won’t be quick changing pickups for live work though, so not an option I’d recommend. Though if you had each pot a push/push pot you could have individual pickup selection via those., which would be a lot quicker.

[dozymuppet]

Yes, that's correct. No way to get middle only without a 5-way switch that I can think of.

I think that’s ok for this HSS set up. (Not so much for the HSH.)

Thanks for the assist on this \m/

[dozymuppet]

A better idea, get rid of the two useless strings, put on a new neck and make it a 34inch scale, dump the extra pups and have just the one, wired directly to the output jack. No switches, no pots, just balls to the wall simplicity .

This is a most excellent suggestion… for another project

[dozymuppet]

A second push/pull would allow you to have the middle by itself as well. For example:

- Tone push/pull would select if the middle is solo or combined with the other pickups (when on).
- Volume push/pull turns the middle on/off.

So, with the Tone push/pull down, pulling the Vol up would add the middle to whatever bridge/neck combination is selected by the toggle switch. With the Vol down you just get the bridge/neck toggle output.

With the Tone push/pull up, pulling the Vol up would give you the middle by itself, and Vol down returns to just the bridge/neck toggle output. Quick sketch:

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There are lots of different ways of doing the 3 pup setup, it just depends what controls you want and how many holes you’re willing to put in the body.

That is some next level sorcery

Amazing.

I like this and McCreed’s suggestions here. Aesthetically, I don’t really want to add any more complexity. So I’m trying to avoid more holes and conversions. And I’m not so concerned about infinite tone options. But if I’m going to have a HSS, I should put the middle PU to work one way or the other. Neck isolated is more important than Middle isolated, so I think I can get away with the single P/P and be happy. But now I have options