Need some wiring help?? Split coil??

[Jimbotops]

I have decided to finally put new pickups on my strat and bought a pair(1 neck and 1 bridge) of epiphone humbuckers.

Each humbucker only has two connections coming off it and I was wondering if there is any way to split these to make them sound like a single coil.

Complete beginer, never done any guitar wiring before, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[braderrick]

Originally Posted by Jimbotops

I have decided to finally put new pickups on my strat and bought a pair(1 neck and 1 bridge) of epiphone humbuckers.

Each humbucker only has two connections coming off it and I was wondering if there is any way to split these to make them sound like a single coil.

Complete beginer, never done any guitar wiring before, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

With only two conductors on the pickups you won't be able to split them or anything like that. I think some have modified humbuckers to get all 4 conductors but I have no experience with this. I'd say you'll have to settle for standard humbucker tones or it may be best to buy some humbuckers with 4 conductor wiring and then you'll have many options.

I just put seymour duncan humbuckers in my gibson sg and used two push/pull pots in place of the standard tone pots for the coil split. I gotta say it's pretty slick being able to split each pickup individually, made the guitar much more playable especially for me since I'm more of a single coil guy.

[kman900]

Originally Posted by Jimbotops

Each humbucker only has two connections coming off it and I was wondering if there is any way to split these to make them sound like a single coil.
Complete beginer, never done any guitar wiring before, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

With some experience it's pretty easy, but as i first-timer . . well . . a radio-technician should be able to do the job. Inside the pickup (btw does it have a cover or plain coils?) you find the two coils, with 2 wires each. One wire per coil connects to the other coil, the two remaining are "hot" and "ground", which is also connected to the baseplate.

What one has to do is get a piece of 4-wire shielded cable, the problem here is to find one that still is pretty thin. then desolder the old cable from the pickup, widen the hole in the baseplate for the thicker wire. Then connect the 4 wires to the four pickup wires . . and you're done . .

[Jimbotops]

thanks for the help guys. I think ill stick with it as a humbucker for now, sounds too complicated to do anything else with it. Maybe take it to a pro if I need some new tones.

Thanks