Wiring Help needed: 3 switches, 2 volume, 1 tone

[Blackkeeper]

Hi

I´ve recently stripped my Charvel model 6 of its JE-1200 system. I want to keep the on/off switches for each individual pickup, and I´m thinking of using the 3 potentiometer-slots for 2 volume and 1 tone-pot.

That way I would have a volume for the singlecoils and a volume for the humbucker.

I´m into the basics of wiring, but I´m not quite sure in which order i should connect the pickups to which pots. Any suggestions for a route?

[Diego]

Check out guitarNuts.com. They have all kinds of wiring schematics !

[Newc]

Should be like this:

Humbucker to first Volume knob (closest to the bridge), then to the 1st switch, then to the Output jack.

Middle single-coil to the 2nd switch, which is connected to the 3rd switch via the center prongs.

Neck single-coil to the 3rd switch to the Output jack.

[Blackkeeper]

I´m quite confused about that answer. I mentioned having 2 volume pots (1 for the humbucker and 1 for the SC´s), and that I also want a tone-pot.

Does anyone else have any idea how this could be done? (I´ve maintained the original connections between the switches)

[Spivonious]

Each pickup goes to a switch, then one switch goes to volume A, and the two other switches go to volume B. Both volumes go to tone, which goes to output.

[Newc]

Yeah, I forgot about the Tone

[Blackkeeper]

Would it be something like this?

[satyr]

One problem...the volume pots are in parallel...you would have to select between them, or one affects the other...

[Blackkeeper]

I should actually include an extra switch in the system then?

would the one volume control leech on the signal from the other or how would they affect each other?

[satyr]

The pots cancel the signal to ground...if one pot is full, one off...it's grounded..if you use 2 pole switches for the selectors, you could run the pot output back through the second pole on each switch(the corresponding pickup)then when the switch is off, the pot is disabled.Still a nuisance if you are using a single and the hum....good luck.