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Being one to experiment, I'm building a Frankenaxe from a Kramer Pacer body and a Jackson neck. The Pacer is routed for two humbuckers and has control cavity spots for three pots and a pickup selector. I'm using push-pull 500K pots for the two volumes and one tone control, and have popped a couple of DPDT mini toggles in to boot.
I'm trying to get as many combinations out of this setup as possible. Where I keep running into a problem is trying to find a way to switch both humbuckers in a series configuration where I don't end up with a "mute" if the wrong pickup happens to be selected by itself.
Has anyone else out there found a killer wiring setup for one of these? I know Stewart-MacDonald's web site has some diagrams, but I'm trying to do each pickup as a single coil by itself and none of theirs quite suits my needs.

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Here are a couple of weired-guitar-schematics resource that might keep you busy for some time :
http://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/
http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/2hvari_e.htm

The series switch i wired on my SG does bypass the pickup selector, no risk of dead spot then.
There is also a way to wire two coils of a humbucker with two DPDT switches where both off is series, both on is parallel, and either one on is single coil. This could be used for whole pickups as well.
http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/attachm ... toggle.jpg

This may also suit you : http://guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/7200/hh-cubed
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