Hi Pete,
Thank you for your reply. It would be nice to be able to set up 2 indipendant 5-way switches. Not only because the wiring would be easy, but it would be nice to be able to come off the 12 string in the neck postion and go onto the 6 string in the bridge postion for a solo with only one flick of a switch. Unfortunately, I don't have the room in the body cavity for another 5-way and I don't trust myself with a router to create a new cavity.
A few things I've read since my original post say that I need to use a 5-way 4 pole from StewMac like this one;
5-way 4 pole Super Switch
Of corse, there was no explaination of how to incorporate this switch into a double neck scheme. That would've been too easy. java script:emoticon('', 'smid_4')
There is a digram explaining the switch on Stew Mac's website. But not ever having wired a guitar, I can;t realte it to anything. What I can't figure out is this. On a regular 5-way switch for a strat, there are 8 lugs. (1-Bridge, 2-Middle, 3-Neck, 4-Crosses over to 5, 6 is empty, 7 goes to a tone pot and 8 goes to the other tone pot. On these super switches, there are only 5 per pole. So, lugs 1,2 & 3 are obvious (B, M, N). What do you do with the other 2? Or maybe you use 2 poles at a time?
I was going to get the guy at my local guitar shop to do the wiring, but I've been reading about guitar wiring for the past 3 days and I think I can do this myself. Obviously, a double-neck is probably not the first wiring project you want to tackle on your own but, now I'm so close. If I can just figure out this super 5 way switch, issue I'm home free.
If anyone can put me out of my misery, I'd appreciate it.
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