by McSpunckle » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:12 pm
You could do that, but the switching would be slow and awkward...
Rio Grande makes a humbucker pickup that's actually 2 tele pickups wired together... so coil splitting that would result in a Tele pickup. You can switch between 3 pickups much faster with 2 3-way switches. Essentially, you use 1 3 way for 2 of the pickups, then the output of that goes into the other switch, with the other pickup. That would allow ANY combo of the 3 pickups-- and with less switches. Every other 3-pickup setup leaves out some options, which is just fucking unacceptable.
I know, I know... MOAR SWITCHES = MOAR METUHL!!one, but that frees up some space for other cool things. With 2 more switches (this is very tricky-- so much so that I don't remember how I did it) you can wire any of the 3 pickups in series, or all 3 in series. This is LOUD and bassy. I haven't tried it, but I'd imagine it's pretty intense through an octave fuzz. With 3 more switches, you can do single coil/parallel switches on the pickups. Unless the 3rd pickup is a single coil... then only 2 switches. Which is good if you're freeing up space for PHASE SWITCHES! YEAH!
SHIT... I wanna go wire something now...
But, yeah, if you wanted to be simple about it, you could totally just put on on/off switches for the pickups.