[Epiphone Les Paul Custom Wood Used -- What is the TRUTH !!]

Just for perspective...how many of us eat hot dogs' date=' bologna or salami...or even better...scrapple? Do you like them? Can you really say you know what the hell's in them? But you eat them anyway, right?

 

One certainly has the option of buying the "premium" bologna for $7.00 a lb and the butcher will even tell you the name of the dachshund he ran through the slicer to get those delectible slices of meaty goodness, but most of us (especially those of us on budgets) buy the $2.99 "God-Only-Knows-What's-In-There" brand. Slap a little mustard on there and you & your "modded" sammich are good to go.

 

Same goes for your guitars...if you're on a budget and "good" will have to do instead of "best," you buy an Epi. You may not know what it's made of, but it'll sound pretty good. You want it to sound a little better? Drop some new pickups in there.

 

If you want to be sure exactly what's in your guitar, and/or you just can't live with anything less than the best, buy the "premium" Gibson. But you know you'll be paying a "premium" price for it.

 

We've debated/questioned/*****ed about what Epi builds their guitars out of at least as long as I've been around this forum and Epi's still not tellin' or changing the practice. Don't expect them to anytime soon either.

 

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I'm liking this analogy....in the "guitar deli" epi is the bologna of guitars and gibson is the pastrami on rye....or something like that! How much is it for a side of cole slaw and a kosher pickle?:-

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

 

I would guess that you are using this SD diagram as an illustration of the way the switchcraft

3-way should be wired. In this diagram ' date=' all it's doing is lifting or connecting, the ground to the red/white (the end

of the windings for the N-S coils for SDs),which is what we discussed originally. ( I removed my original posts. )

 

Blk = start of N coil= hot Grn = start of S coil =gnd

 

So in the split mode, the S coil (actual reverse wound coil) is grounded out on both ends (wires) and the North

is used as the single coil.

 

To do this, the center contacts on the switchcraft 3-way need to be separated and we get as you say:

1. humbucker

2. Split (south coil grounded out)

3. Kill (ground applied to the 3-way contact that serves the other non-existant p_up. [/quote']

 

Thats correct....I used that diagram because it was the closest thing I could find and could not draw one last night. But yes the key is in wiring the 3 way without linking the center tabs to give you the extra break function......I thought it was kinda clever.....

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

I'm tied up on a computer that doesn't have my autocad program on it tonite......so I'll do this with a couple stock pics.

Here is a standard 3 way switch 2 pup wiring You'll notice that the 2 center contacts are soldered together....for this application Don't do that! Bring red and white to one set of contacts and black and + volume control to the other set of contacts and then the rest is like this but without the added push pull switch. Pretty straight ahead .......not conventional but simple non the less. I'm surprised you had such a hard time visualizing it carverman.

 

Edit I left out 1 wire from white to ground sorry.....red and white stay together and in the other break position white goes to ground...Duh sorry!

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

OK I got a few minutes and this is doable....red and white are together on on one contact up it's humbucker,middle it's single coil and down it's kill. So you have red and white together and ground on one side and black and pos vol control on the other side......I started second guessing myself It's very much like this but with a second break position for the kill function. And you don't connect the center contacts like a standard LP switch!

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

I'll draw one up tonite guy's ....I can't do it right now but I'll spill the beans......the center position doesn't have to bring the 2 contacts together....so if you leave them separated you put red and white on one pair black and pos to volume control on the other....so center position is humbucker...down position is single coil and up is kill!

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

Enough suspense. Here's the circuit:

 

 

In the middle position' date=' the second (tapped) coil is shorted out. The humbucking position breaks this short. The kill position isolates the pickup.

 

...and I have [i']no idea[/i] what Layboomo is talking about.

 

That's not the only way it can be done!

[Single humbucker+coil tap+3 way switch=Kill switch?]

It's very simple .....hint : A....A+B...B is the standard switch!

 

OK I'll give it to you!

Both coils....ground

One coil....ground

Both coils to ground