custom electric guitars designed and built by hand in Red Bank, NJ USA
Welcome! Here you will find my original design wiring diagrams. Most are designed around Super Strat or Tele constraints with limited space - 1 blade switch and two pots in small cavities, often attached via pickguard or control plate.
Unless otherwise noted all 2 Humbucker diagrams :
Introduced in 2013, over 10 years later the Freeway Ultra remains a unique product. It's the only truly customizable switch in a large toggle form factor. Plus it doubles the total sounds available from 3 to 6. It's a great option for adding verstaility to guitars with a Toggle and only 2 Pots instead of rotary switches or push-pulls which can be awkward to adjust during live performance.
These circuits were designed for guitars I built with atypical 3 pickup layouts, such as Firebird Neck, Soapbar Middle, Humbucker bridge. These can be adapted to any 3 pickup guitar.
PO Box 2014 Red Bank, NJ 07701 USA Email: info at fourwindslutherie dot com
Unless otherwise noted all diagrams :
* are listed chronologically by revision date
* have been real world tested
* show color codes for the actual pickups they were tested with, which may have been updated by the manufacturer since then
2 Humbucker + 5-Way Super Switch + 1 Volume + 1 Tone Diagrams
* require 4 conductor plus shield leads to achieve coil split and/or out of phase combinations in positions 2 & 4
Rev A : Wolfetone : Half Out of Phase (Hollow) : Inner Coils Parallel
Rev B : Wolfetone : Half Out of Phase (Hollow) : Inner Coils Series
Rev C : Wolfetone : Half Out of Phase (Raw) : Inner Coils Series
Rev D : Lollar : Half Out of Phase (Raw) : Inner Coils Series : Peter Green style rotated neck pickup
Rev E2 : TV Jones : Half Out of Phase (Raw) : Series Out of Phase (Wah Scream)
Rev G : Seymour Duncan : Half Out of Phase (Raw) : Inner Coils Series : selective tone control
Rev PCR : Seymour Duncan : circa 2000 PRS 5 Way Rotary Sounds
2 Humbucker + Freeway Ultra 6 Position Toggle + 1 Volume + 1 Tone Diagrams
Unless otherwise noted all 2 Humbucker diagrams :
* require 4 conductor plus shield leads to achieve coil split and/or out of phase combinations in positions 2 & 4
Rev C : Seymour Duncan : Half Out of Phase (Hollow) : Inner Coils Series : Series Out of Phase (Screaming Wah)
3 Pickup + 5-Way Super Switch + 1 Volume + 1 Tone Diagrams
Rev C : 10 usable sounds : all 7 parallel combos : Half Out of Phase (Raw) : selective tone control: Series Out of Phase (Wah Scream) Solo Switch
Miscellaneous Component Diagrams
3 Pickup + 4PDT 3Way Toggle Wiring for Individual Pickup Selction : Works with 2 or 4 control setups
custom electric guitars designed and built by hand
in Red Bank, NJ USA
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