Charvel Surfcaster Wiring Help Needed

[dilver]

Can anyone help me with a wiring diagram? I've looked and looked, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for:

1 Humbucker in Bridge position (4 conductor)
1 Single coil in Neck position
3 way toggle switch (N/both/Br)
1 Volume Pot
1 Tone Pot with Push-Pull for Coil cut of Humbucker

It's for a Charvel Surfcaster that I just acquired and the previous owner did some wacky things with the wiring.


THANKS!!!!

[D2o]

Hi dilver, and welcome to GN2!

I can't find exactly what you are looking for at the moment, but the link below almost does what you want - it just uses the volume pot as the push-pull.

Is that of any help? ... or have you already found that?

D2o

Edit: the link:

www.seymourduncan.com/pdfs/support/schematics/tele_1hum_1sing_pushpull.pdf

[dilver]

thanks for the welcome and the reply. Yes, I've seen this diagram - not sure how exactly to switch the push pull to the tone, but thanks anyway!

[chase]

You can just move the switch to the other pot - there's no electrical connection between the switch and the pot on a push-pull switch.

[wolf]

As for moving the push-pull pot switch to a different pot, wouldn't the other pot have to be a push-pull pot also? I don't think a switch can be put on just any potentiometer.

[chase]

I meant move it in the diagram. A push-pull pot has a switch built in to it, you can't physically move the switch separately from the pot. You just have to use a regular pot where the push-pull is, and a push-pull where the regular pot was. Even though the switch is attached to the push-pull pot, there's no electronic connection between them (unless you make one), so the switch itself can be relocated without changing the wiring. If the pots in question are otherwise identical (250K audio taper, for instance) you can just swap the pots.

[dilver]

Sorry for being thick, but I'm not sure I understand where I'm supposed to connect the leads if I switch the position of the regular and push-pull pots. Can someone sketch this out for me? Also, I'd like to use 3 way toggle vs. a tele-style lever switch.

[chase]

Everything connects exactly the same way, the block (the rectangle with six circles) representing the switch is just in a different physical location.

[newey]

Also, I'd like to use 3 way toggle vs. a tele-style lever switch.

The toggle wiring will differ from the 3-way shown in the diagram. If you are using a Gibson-style toggle, you can wire it just like any LP/SG wiring scheme. That module will "fit" into your scheme in the same place, electrically speaking, that the Tele Switch does in the diagram.

Think of this in a modular fashion, and it will start to make more sense. The push/pull switch for the bridge coil cut is one module, and it attaches at one end to the bridge pickup, and at the other end to the pickup selector switch.

The pickup selector switch is another module; it attaches at one end to the neck pickup and to the bridge p/p switch, and at the other end to the V & T controls.

The V & T controls are another module, which attaches at one end to the pickup selector, and to the output jack at the other.

And, when I say "at the end", I don't mean it attaches physically to the end of the component- I mean electrically, to one or the other end of the signal chain between the various modules and components.

[dilver]

Like the idea of "modules" - makes it easier to think about one section at a time. Thanks for the input!