Question for a custom guitar

[arthian]

I'm building a guitar and my neck and middle pickups will be Single Coil and my Bridge pickup will be a Humbucker.

I've had great interest in how Brian May's Guitar is wired with the Phase Switches and the on/off switch for each pick up. And I want to do that on my guitar, I just don't know how.

Essentially I would like to know if that would be possible and how the wiring should look

I'm sorry if this has already been posted, I'm new to the forum

[pete12345]

Yep, you can do that no problem. Here guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=schem&action=display&thread=3160 is a set of schematics. The first and second ones use individual switches, the second one being slightly better in terms of tone. The other ones are about reducing the number of switches, but I would use the second diagram.

Pete

[arthian]

Thank you, just one final after thought...Would the fact that Brian uses 3 single coil pickups and I'm using two single and a humbucker have any affect on the wiring, or would it just be the same?

[newey]

Arthian-

If the HB is of the two wire variety, it would be wired in just the same as the SCs. If they are of the 4-wire variety, there are numerous options, but they can be wired just like a 2-wire one by wiring the 2 coils in series (what goes where to do so depends on your pickup color coding).

[pete12345]

BTW, to get phasing for any pickup, you only actually need phase switches on two of them, since putting those two 'out of phase' would in fact put the third pickup out of phase with the other two.

E.G, with phase switches on the neck and bridge, reversing both would put them in phase with each other, and the middle one out of phase. Doesn't hurt to have one for each though, and it makes the guitar look a bit neater.

Pete