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hey all i just found this site .thank god

i just finished building a frankenstien eddie replica and made one modification in that i thought it would be cool to have 1 single coil 1 humbucker 2 volume no tone no switch the proble is i have it all together and now cannot figure out how to wire this thing i keep cutting out pickups is this a lost cause or has anybody else ever tried to do this before

thanks for any help

eddie wannabee :D

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http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/suppo...il_one_vol.html

click on this link and then just do what it shows twice..one wire from each volume pot to the output jack and both pots grounded.

good luck

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sorry..i thought i was giving good advice. lk, can you explain why they wouldn't function independently if wired like the diagram? inquiring minds want to know. :D

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unclej, your advice wasn't bad, it just wasn't complete (no crime in that) - that mod was probably the first thing I learned to do with a stock LP or SG, so Gibson doesn't know about it either, evidently! :D However, without a selector switch, you won't be able to use a single pickup by itself, since turning either volume to zero (with the traditional setup) will kill both pickups, and the alternate wiring becomes a necessity. Don't ask me how I know - let's just say that silence can be deafening. :D

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i know that silence lk. and it never happens at the beginning of a project..always after you've done all the work and crank it up for the first time. i swear that my forehead is a lot flatter after starting to work on guitars and amps..from the slapping don't cha know? :D

thanks, as always, for the info.

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switch where the inputs and outputs go on the pots to decouple them. Otherwise, it'll do wierd stuff like a Les Paul does, like it'd kill the whole signal if one volume is at 0, and having the pickups reduce the overall inductance giving you a wierd sound.

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