Mockingbird style- Kurt White

[wokkaboy]

Hey Kurt, good news the clear coat is now sorted. I had the same thing happen to me Sunday must have been too cold and it went cloudy and bubbled up immediately.
Plenty of wiring options with 4 pot holes. Have a master volume, 2 tones and the 4th hole could have a kill switch or coil split if your pickups have 4 wires.
Or a mini switch could change the pickups to series or parallel.

If resident wiring guru Weirdbits sees this post he will have much more possible options depending what sounds you are chasing.

[KurtSlash123]

I would love to have a cool split but with the pickups that come with it I don't think they have 2 wires, will have to double check. I had a quick read about the whole series and parallel, I can't remember which is which but does a guitar normally run in parallel or series? And this is only giving it the other option? Or have I gone and confused myself? A killswitch wouldn't be too bad but I have a pedal on my pedal board for that and it would sort be unnesasary I guess.

[stan]

i feel your pain mate, I have one I have redone about 3 times and it's not finished yet - cold does all sorts of bad to paint. Warm the surface to be painted with a heater, and put the cans of paint into warm water before sing, much more success

[WeirdBits]

Normally, humbuckers are wired in series (between their coils) but pickups are combined in parallel (middle position on 3-way toggle). Coil split, series/parallel coils, parallel/series connections between pickups are all options, but it depends on how many wires your pickups have, and/or if you're willing to do some surgery on them if they've only got hot & ground.

Something like this is a good starting point:

If you ignore the split/series/parallel switches and master series/parallel, it's just a master volume and two tones. Then, depending on you pickup wires etc. you can add one or more of the other switches.

Alternately, you could just have master volume, two tones and then a switch to select between different tone capacitors etc. It really depends on what controls you normally use, and what you're likely to use if you had it.

[KurtSlash123]

Oh dear I think I've entered a whole new world of confusion there wierdy! I don't really understand much of that diagram haha. They pickups I was planning on putting in this thing are the standard chrome plated things 😝 it has 2 wires. A bare wore (which I can only assume is a ground wire) and a white covered wire (active wire?). Depending on how hard surgery is, I would just go through with a split coil system of that works with these pickups, I wouldn't have a clue in the slightest! Please help haha!

[WeirdBits]

Have a read through DB's coil split mod guide and see what you think. If that's too complex or the risk of killing your pups is too great (and if you don't want to buy some multi-wire pups), then I can just draw up a simple master volume, two tone with cap switching diagram for you.

[KurtSlash123]

It doesn't look to hard, I'll have a crack with a spare pup tomorrow and see how I go,

[WeirdBits]

If you want to roll the dice and go all out... you can have a go at converting them to 4 wire + ground. It's more involved and more risk, but you'll then have the full series/parallel/split options available.

[keloooe]

Or spend about $100 and get some new Toneriders? I'd put the Rocksongs in a LP any day of the week, plus they are nice and hot, but if you do want a more Slash like pickup then the AC2 or AC4 should suffice (but I don't know if they have the 4 conductor wires).

[KurtSlash123]

Okay so I've strted to split the coil and see how easy it is, I've had a few problems but nothing major, check DBs coil cutting thread to see what I'm talking about if I havnt stuffed it up too bad I might just go with the coil split idea. Something I've always wanted and should be easy enough to do