Series Wiring for a Strat: Can it be done with one switch?

Hey all,

I've got something of a small problem. I've got a three pickup guitar (a strat, go figure) that has a couple mods done to it already. I've added a "neck on" switch to give it two more options, a coil tap for the bridge humbucker and a killswitch due to recent interest. This guitar will not take many more switches, I think. I want to add the ability to change the pickups from parallel to series with as few switches as possible.

Optimally, I'd like it to retain the 5-way in it's normal capacity, but unfortunately I do not have a full understanding of the switches and circuit logic to work on it myself. Lucky me, the electronics engineering classes I want to take are a few years ahead.

Is there any way to do this modification with a single switch? If not, what is the simplest way to achieve this?

Hey all,

I've got something of a small problem. I've got a three pickup guitar (a strat, go figure) that has a couple mods done to it already. I've added a "neck on" switch to give it two more options, a coil tap for the bridge humbucker and a killswitch due to recent interest. This guitar will not take many more switches, I think. I want to add the ability to change the pickups from parallel to series with as few switches as possible.

Optimally, I'd like it to retain the 5-way in it's normal capacity, but unfortunately I do not have a full understanding of the switches and circuit logic to work on it myself. Lucky me, the electronics engineering classes I want to take are a few years ahead.

Is there any way to do this modification with a single switch? If not, what is the simplest way to achieve this?

You could sub out one of tone pots with a Fralin blender pot and use the "neck on" switch as a series/parallel switch instead. Not sure how you'd wire it though.

You can do it with the bottom tone pot. Wire the top one as a master tone, and use the bottom one as a "switch". I sure Deaf Eddie has a way to do it, but I used this thing that was in Guitar Player. Ralph Novak came up with it. It was from 84-85 and had Billy G on the cover.