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Hey, I'm working on my first guitar and this is my first post here. I've designed my own wiring diagram and was hoping some of you would be able to make sure everything's been wired correctly. 

A few notes on the wiring:
- This guitar uses two Bipolar pickups. They are designed in a similar way to P-Bass pickups or G&L Z-coils, where the the lower 3 strings are picked up by one coil, and the top three by another. When one is reverse wound and has reverse polarity, it creates a noise canceling pickup that sounds like a traditional single coil. They also allow for each "half coil" to be switched to completely separately from its pair, which creates more tonal possibilities. 

- The two switches are to control each half of the bipolar pickups (one for the ones picking up EAD strings, the other for GBE). There is no jumper between the two sides of the switch (like there would be for telecaster wiring) because the bridge pickup needs to go through the phase switch first.

- In general white (grey) wires are hot, and black are ground. For the bottom Bipolar pickup, red is hot and green is ground. For the humbucker, Black is north-start, White is north-finish, Red is south-finish, and Green is south-start. Blue wires are jumpers.

- The switches next to the potentiometers are meant to represent push-pull pots.

guitar v2.pdf

 

 

  • 5 weeks later...
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Hi and welcome onboard!

I know nothing about eletrickery but the description sounds interesting! Let's hope someone more savvy would soon chime in and tell if that's doable. And most of all, pictures and sound samples in the near future seem to be worth waiting for.

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