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If you want to leave the 'screw' coils active, reverse the connections of both pickups so the black is ground and the green is hot.
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The idea of reversing the connection to get the other coils active is worth a try. Thanks!
The complication is that to get a Strat neck or bridge single-pickup sound you really need the outer coils again, so unless you have some means of selecting which coil the splits are to - like some of the early Patrick Eggle guitars had - you can't get both.
You can also choose the other coil if you connect the coil-split junction to the pickup hot rather than to ground, which is easier to make switchable than reversing the pickups.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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If your guitar had a lever selector switch, it would be possible to "borrow" the EBMM Axis Super Sport circuit to get the split coils pairs in positions 2 and 4.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Fender’s Big Apple two-humbucker Strat had an even better system where 2 was the outer neck coil, 3 was both humbuckers, and 4 was both inner coils - both of the most Strat-like sounds plus the three normal humbucker ones, without any need for push-pulls.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The Fender BA circuit depends on a magnet flip and conductor sequence change for noise-cancellation.
That appears to be the convention, although originally I used to think it should be the other way round.
Yes. It also leaves the 'upper' coils un-bypassed in the both-inner-coils position, which is not ideal - so they can use only a 2-pole 5-way switch. (Which is not the same as a standard 5-way...)
It does - like the PRS rotary-switch settings, all combinations are hum-cancelling.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein