This guitar came as a lefty, strung to be played right-handed. The owner wanted me to
design a new pickguard that would allow for a chicken-head rotary switch to control the
bridge and neck pickups, and nothing but a volume control for the new lipstick humbucker
he supplied (from Guitar Fetish). Note the retro aluminum-and-black knobs.
The wiring we cooked up for this guitar was a 6-position rotary switch:
- 1. Neck
- 2. Both, serial
- 3. Both, serial, out of phase
- 4. Both, parallel
- 5. Bridge
- 6.Off (to allow for nothing but the middle pickup
To the requested volume-only for the middle pickup, we added a push-pull so the lipsticks
can be "coil-tapped." The other knob is a master volume.
After all the modifications the guitar was polished, the fingerboard cleaned and oiled, and
the guitar was set up and tested.
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