What kind of HH wiring is this????

[Guitar-Freak]

Nothing? No one?

[newey]

guitar-Freak-

I can't tell much from the guy's photos, the solderless connectors block the view of most of the wiring. He describes having a modified Push/pull for the tone, and says it has a 5-way switch but doesn't say if this is a standard Strat 5-way or not, although it looks like one from the one side we can see. All this could be easily done with a 4-pole Superswitch but I'm not envisioning how to do it with a regular 5-way switch.

The closest thing I can think of to what you want is a scheme from Deaf Eddie over at TDPRI. I reposted the scheme here. But this is for a HB-SC guitar, not 2 HBs. The Deaf Eddie scheme is the only one I've seen that gets a series option (without redundant positions) on a regular 5-way switch, so if this can be done with a regular 5-way, I figure it'd be something similar to this scheme, but incorporating the 4th coil.

I'll have a look at the problem, but likely that someone else will be along with either a solution or a conclusion that no solution is possible with a regular 5-way.

[Guitar-Freak]

Thank you, Newey! He uses a regular 5-way Oaks and the push pull tone pot is a tone mod that has an Greasebucket circuit, then on the up position, at 10 it’s fixed wah and at 0 it’s a bluesy tone. It’s just connected simply to the volume pot per normal method but not the 5-way. I know the two connectors on front are just for the output jack. I can see which wires are grounded. I can see which lugs the colored wires are connected through. The oddball squiggley loose grey wire leading to nothing is a mystery but the rest I can detect. Makes me feel a lot better that you’re not sure. I say that with the utmost respect. I know you’re a genius at wiring after reading much for a long time, I just do t really ever speak up here. I was hoping you’d take a look. But, if you’re uncertain, there definitely is something difficult about what he’s done. His stuff is used everywhere so he and his mods and harness that look like they come from Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory are all legit. He’s stumped me on this and it’s the proverbial song that’s stuck in my head and cannot figure it out. Thank you for trying and for taking the time to look and dissect. Hoping someone as you say will show up and be able to decipher that one. ☝🏻

And thank you for the Deaf Eddie post link!!! Very informative and helpful!

[newey]

Thanks for the kind words but I'm far from being any kind of a genius at this. My point about the tone pot is that, since we know he's modified that, maybe he's modified the 5-way as well.

As I re-read this, though, I'm unclear On:

3. Bridge and neck single coil in series
4. Bridge and neck single coil in parallel

Is this the full bridge HB in either series/parallel with one coil of the neck? Or are both bridge and neck cut to single coil in these positions?

[Guitar-Freak]

It’s the second. Both SC in series and then parallel.

[Guitar-Freak]

Never mind. I’ll just buy it and reverse engineer plus install and use it.

[stevewf]

Hey Guitar-Freak, I was trying to cook up a wiring answer but I kept running into brick walls. If you do figure it out, I sure would appreciate if you could post some findings.

[Guitar-Freak]

Jun 30, 2024 1:44:15 GMT -5 stevewf said:

Hey Guitar-Freak, I was trying to cook up a wiring answer but I kept running into brick walls. If you do figure it out, I sure would appreciate if you could post some findings.

💯 I sure will. I should have within the week and will post.