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Yet another option is if you change your 5 way selector switch to a super switch you could wire it so that all the other positions are the same but position 3 is neck+bridge and you sacrifice the middle pickup solo.
I think the best option is what Revolting1 already said - it's known as the blender mod. The selector switch stays as it is at the moment but one of your tone pots becomes a master tone and the other becomes the "blender" which, if left off, lets the pickup selector work as normal but when you turn that knob it gradually adds the bridge pickup if the neck is selected and vice versa.
The 2 advantages of doing it this way are that you don't need to buy any additional parts (though a no-load tone pot is recommended if your guitar doesn't already have that, but it's not required) and that you can choose to only add some of the other pickup in; e.g. have the full bridge pickup but just a touch of the neck pickup to warm it up. Some people like that but it's not something I found useful, I only used fully on or fully off.
As far as I'm aware it's not possible with normal wiring but maybe there's some kind of elaborate fancy scheme that would allow it. Suppose it's not really worth it since the soloed pickups won't ever be hum bucking anyway.
The 5B5-01 model delivers 10-position Free-Way switching in a Blade format which is directly interchangeable with conventional 5-way selectors. The lower bank of 5 positions delivers all the familiar pickup combinations just as normal - but the upper bank contains the missing parallel combinations (neck + bridge) and (neck + middle + bridge) together with three 'in series' combinations to provide higher output tones which you may not expect to hear from single coil pickups and which greatly expands the tonal range of any three pickup guitar. Visually undetectable when fitted, the 5B5-01 delivers incredible tonal flexibility in a completely intuitive, familiar package.
Unfortunately, as the years pass, I find that I make almost no use of the neck + bridge in parallel, in phase sound.
On a slight tangent, does anybody have any evidence of when Gilmour ever used the neck + bridge sound on record or on stage? (I have The Black Strat book. While it illustrates two different instances of the switch, it offers no explanation of the uses to which the extra sounds were ever put.)
In the words of Nigel Tufnel, "that's one more, innit?"
With a 4PDT on/on switch, it is possible to flip from whatever the five-way switch is selecting to two of your pickups, connected in series, for a boost. A blower switch of sorts.
If one of the coils is reverse wound, reverse polarity with respect to the other, the combination will be hum-cancelling. It will not have the same output and tone as a humbucker.