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you need a ground connection on the free lug of your volume pot... are we looking at the bottom of those pots of at the top... if you get that wrong they will turn the opposite way to what you expect Steve

Hey, I have to disagree the diagram is wrong... using seymore duncan wiring codes in position 1 the output from the south coil of the bridge humbucker is connected to the ouput of the north coil of the same humbucker ... neither of these are connected to the output ... in fact the only coil of the bridge humbucker which is connected to the output is the input side of the north pole of the bridge humbuker.. and this is connected to the output in parallel with the P90 ouput... all other switch positions are also incorrect if you want I could draw up a diagram tomorrow sometime that would achieve what you want using the 4 pole 6-way when I have more time Steve

Just one question before i answer, which humbucker are you using? Dimarzizo Seymore etc etc? Steve

nope it wont work the way you think it will... infact is so far wrong I assumed it was a joke at first... but incase its not... in the first position you have the P90 going ot the output which is connected to the input wire of the neck side of the bridge humbucker... the two humbucker output wires are connected together and not to any output... plus the input wire of the P90 is ungrounded so it wont work..

Hi, anyone know where I can get stronger tremelo springs so that I can go form 3 to 2 in the back of a floyd equipped guitar.... I need to only have two springs in order to give me enough space to accomodate a circuitboard I have made. Best wishes Steve

Fortunatly/Unfortunatly DPDT switches dont always work that way. The centre position is often a diagonal (top left connected to centre and bottom right connected to centre) ... Thanks for all the advice... I ended up using a Dimarzio EP1111 ... switch as Allparts UK took way too long to answer my quesitons and then when I put the order in they managed to loose my credit card details... never dealing with them again. Managed to wire up what I wanted with two fewer poles than I thought I might need.. though Ill only say more when Im finished

Thanks for the replies! Will look into those switches Samba pa ti! What Im using it for is to control seperate cuircuites within the guitar. A seperate push/pull switch engages and disengages the sustainiac and I want to use the other poles of the main pickup selector switch to change the operating mode of the sustainiac. Basically I dont want to add any more controls to this guitar as I want to use it live alot and my other sustainer guitar just has too many switches pots for use on stage .. Keep the advice comming! Thanks Steve

Hey folks, Im on a quest for (at least) a 4 pole on/on/on toggel switch. The must exist as old JPM model Ibanez guitars must have had them. But it seems like they are really hard to get! A 6 pole would be ideal and I thought if anyone knew it would be the knowledgeable folks at project guitar. Any advice help is much appreciated... plus Im not adverse to building my own switch if anyone knows where to get appropriate parts or circuit boards etc Best wishes and thanks in advace for any advice Steve

why not just have a mini toggle for each coil that adds the signal from that coil in parallel to the output and then cram as many coils as you can in between the bridge and neck? If you intend to gig with this guitar then your going to find it very frustrating to have to change three or four switches to achieve the tone you want... bear in mind that you will use about three of those options regularly (full neck adn full bridge plus some parallel or single coil sounds) so it might just be worth thinking about what other two options you would most like and then hard wire all those into a 4 pole five way switch. Steve

I bought one as I didnt have enough cash for a hotplate... it added alot of noise to my effects loop and really killed off the tone of each of my amps I tried it with... i stronly suggest you dont get one... however if your still determined if you paypal me the cost of postage Ill send you mine rhather then throw it in the bin... and have you throw your money away best wishes steve

he he... I got conned into buying one of those cordless evilbay instant heat instant cool jobbies... knew they were too good to be true... worked (badly) for all of 10 mins then went out with a bang. Still use an old crooked one myself... or my Draper gun thing but its a bit unwieldy... im rambling... guess I added no usefull information here ... but since I took the time to type it ..... I guess ill press send and hope that not too many people waste time to read it... apologies if you have gotten this far and are still reading ... this post is going to end very dissappointingly. I need sleep.

You have probably already seen this site but... http://www.diyguitarist.com/ and follow the "guitar stuff" link. Im hoping to build a piezo buffer and magnetic pickup preamp into a splitter box for my RG2020XTB that I have rewired to use a single stereo jack. Getting tangled in two cables mid song is not fun

Hi folks, looking for some usefull URLs to get me started on changing my US carvin amp to UK power supply. Looking for any helpful URLs or hints from the amp builders amongst us. Im tired of lugging my 110v Transformer around... as if the amp wasnt heavy enough! Steve

Ill definatly second that... and your opinion about putting pickups out of phase..... which switches do you use regularly though frank? Ive been using Stewmac ones but theyre about 2wice the price of an allparts one. I nearly always put a high pass on a push pull... but I guess I almost always use it on some pickup combinations and never on others... On my current project I was thinking about connecting up the fourth pole with a push pull to engage a piezo in parallel on some pickup combinations...

Hey Folks, Whenever I go to rewire a guitar I like to keep things as simple as possible from the players point of view cause having to flip switches pull knobs and twist dials as well as stamping on pedals is a bit much for a 12 bar solo... so I generally will have one switch and sometimes 1 or 2 push pulls... though they only select odd pickup combinations that are unlikely to be used in a live situation... so my question is 'is there such thing as a >4 pole 5 way switch?' and does anyone here regularly use the allparts 4 pole switches... they look pretty good but how do they feel/perform in the long run? cause the stewmac ones are pretty expensive. Best wishes Steve