leftyMike Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 I have built an old-school guitar, H-S-S. Using 3 toggles instead of selector switch. Sequence of wiring is: pickups (hot) to toggle switches, switches to volume control, vol. control to output. Grounds from PUs and switches to ground point on pot. Problem is the switches are not independent of each other, 1 on, all on, 1 off all off. Can anyone help me wire this? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar_player Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 I'd just wire it 1 for each pickup on-off if possible on-off coil tap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 I have built an old-school guitar, H-S-S. Using 3 toggles instead of selector switch. Sequence of wiring is: pickups (hot) to toggle switches, switches to volume control, vol. control to output. Grounds from PUs and switches to ground point on pot. Problem is the switches are not independent of each other, 1 on, all on, 1 off all off. Can anyone help me wire this? Thanks It is very difficult to tell...it would seem to be the correct way to wire the things as 3 on off switches and should react to each other like this...nor is an obvious error in wiring or logic apparent. Perhaps what is required is a diagram... Failing that...disconnect two pickups (say middle and neck from the switches) and test the bridge switch is working (on off). Then add the neck pickup to it's switch...see if that works...if not see if any of the hots appear to be ground connected with a multimeter. If it does work test the middle and see if that is the source of the problem. A bit of a mystery one that. There are several more advanced 3 toggle switche schemes...the dan armstrong guitar player one is famous and offers many selections and no all off possibilities...it uses dpdt switches with one of them being a 3 way on-on-on switch (sometimes tricky to find over the on-off-on which is more common). For the same look you get phasing and all pickup combos and no dead spots...still simple on off switches can be good and a reasonable start...hope you get it sorted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 Look at this page for how to wire a guitar using a toggle switch for each pickup: http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/sw1.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewCE Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 Problem is the switches are not independent of each other, 1 on, all on, 1 off all off. Can anyone help me wire this? Thanks Do you mean that the volume/tone knobs are not independent? That will happen, to where when you turn the tone down for one pickup, it effects the others. There are ways to wire around that. Is that what you're talking about? p.s. How many knobs are there on the guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 (edited) The original Hagstrom III employs the use of 3 independent sliding switches to give all pickup combinations possible. The Hag III uses one volume pot and 3 add'l sliding switches (2 tones and a mute). You might be able to work something out from this site for your 3 toggles. Edited January 1, 2009 by Southpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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