Strat-o-Various for HSS or HH

[reTrEaD]

The circuit is built upon this architecture:
Guitar Wiring Design Tutorial: Strat-o-Various Project pt3

It's meant for HSS or HH.
We can think of the Neck and Middle of the HSS in much the same way as think of the two coils of the Neck HB in the HH. In both cases, the North coil is the neck-most, so in the HH the Neck HB is rotated 180 degrees from the typical orientation. There is only one selection (Position 1) that is not hum-cancelling.  To maximize the number of useful combinations, I skipped doing the bridge pair in parallel.

Because we don't use the SL/Gnd connection in positions 5 and 1, S-Mode results in only a singular path being valid (Hot/Hot).

- I chose to make position 5 a "hum-sing" in Parallel mode and just the neck-most coil in S-Mode.

- Position 4 is Neck and Middle (or the two coils of the Neck HB), in Parallel or Series.

- Position 3 is Neck and Bridge-South (Outers of the two HBs), in Parallel or Series

- Position 2 is Middle and Bridge-North (Inners of the two HBs), in Parallel or Series.

- Position 1 features both HBs (local series) in parallel with each other in the Parallel mode and the Bridge HB in S-Mode.





I hope JohnH , Yogi B , or some other experienced nut(s) will take some time to vet this for me.
EDIT: Thanks John!

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Here's an alternate version that places the three coils in series in S-Mode position 1, although I reckon the original version might be a better choice.

[JohnH]

That seems very good, I traced it through successfully

But obviously, I had to find something! And its a red wire crossing a black wire near the top left switch pole, and a pink crossing a red near the lower right switch pole, without the neat little white gaps!

[reTrEaD]

Aug 26, 2023 15:50:15 GMT -5 JohnH said:

But obviously, I had to find something!

Thank you! I do appreciate your time and attention to detail. I corrected the original diagram and added a second diagram with a slight twist, but I think most will find the original more useful.