Have'nt posted in awhile. Wiring Halp!

[P-Zilla]

I am planning a lefty hardtail strat build, all be it a little unorthodox.

Basically a lefty strat for a right hand player, but with the left hand pickguard with NO control holes except a 3-way kill switch and all 3 pickups wired in series. Basically a strat made to kill.

I am curious as to how I wire all three pickups in series to the 3 way kill. I want the kill to be a 3-way cause if I hit it with my forearm the switch in "on" on the outer positions and "off" in the center. Then all that is STRAIGHT to the jack.

Any help, maybe a simple diagram?



Did I mention it going to have a Tele 3-saddle bridge and Tele-neck? Yea its going to be awesome.

[Deaf Eddie]

So, let me make sure I understand the concept clearly:

NO pup selector switch - just the three pups in series, all the time?

Only an on/off/on 3-way instead of a pup selector?

If that's it, this will work:



The only pickup grounded would be your Tele bridge pup. Its hot would connect only to the mid pup's ground lead, and the mid pup's hot lead would connect to the neck pup's ground lead. the neck pup's hot lead would be the only hot connected to your on/OFF/on kill switch, jumpered between throws #1 and #3. The jack's hot would connect to the common lug of the 3-way.

Questions?

[P-Zilla]

The 3-way I will be using is a Gibson style 3-way toggle.

[Deaf Eddie]

Hmmmm... Don't think an ON/off/ON is possible with that style switch. Perhaps someone else has a solution that isn't apparent to me.

[Lerb21]

Originally Posted by Deaf Eddie

Hmmmm... Don't think an ON/off/ON is possible with that style switch. Perhaps someone else has a solution that isn't apparent to me.

In my limited soldering and electronics experience, I concur.