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The only reason it's different at all is that a tone control pot still has a tiny amount of effect even when at 10, unless it's a no-load pot.
I don't know why anyone would bother with a switch for that personally.
I suppose it's a similar benefit to have more than 1 volume and/or tone knob on a guitar.
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If you play guitar with the guitar volume control at or near 10, the blower switch has little or no effect. Move the guitar volume control to 5 and the blower switch kicks in with a bang.
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The three-way selector switch is interesting. It has 8 numbered contact points down one side and some are permanently joined ...
The blower switch should have 6 terminals:
1 4
2 5
3 6
If 1 and 4 are at the end where the switch is in ‘normal’ mode, then connect:
1 to bridge pickup terminal on selector switch
2 to bridge pickup
3 to jack
4 to volume pot output
5 to jack
6 no connection (or for extra reliability, also connect it to 2)
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(If it’s a new CTS push-pull they’re on a small PCB.)
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This is what the current set up is (each pickup has 5 wires - red, green, black, white and bare).
Both sets of red and green wires are taped off together. Both white wires go to the three-way selector switch. Both sets of black and bare wires go to a terminal on each end of the selector switch.
The push pull tone pot is connected only to the volume pot.
The blower switch (which is the tone pot) dies nothing and the tone pot dies not affect 5h3 tone at all.
Im completely at a loss and no diagrams on the interweb come close to helping. This wasn’t a cheap guitar (it’s. TLL Marvin) and I’d be surprised if it left TLL (or NAG) like this. The soldering looks pretty rough and the components are basic.
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To do it right is a lot more complex than some people realise as you have to lift BOTH the hot and the live of the pickup from the the cicuit and connect it directly to the jack
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(Just for clarity, my labelling is for the hot connections - all grounds are connected as normal.)
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