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Anyone have a clue how to convert this:
I'm trying to get a large 3 way switch to control the coils on the P. Rails
I've done it with the mini ON-OFF-ON switch like this

This is what i'm going for, but instead of the mini toggles, it's going to be 2 seperate large togglies

this is as close as i've gotten

What guitar do you have?

But for any guitar with 3 knobs, I would suggest making master volume, master tone and a rotary switch to do the switching but seeing as you appear to have a les paul, why don't you get dual gang pots for volume and tone then put a rotary switch and then you have a spare hole to play around with

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this sums it up pretty well to


with 'painted' wiring directions

It's hard for me to see what's going on because I don't know what the pickup leads are for. I don't think you can do it with a big les paul toggle though. You're going to need at least a double pole switch (like a DPDT or DP3T). the les paul switches are only single pole. They can only switch one thing at a time (not two separate things at the same time).

EDIT: however, you could use it to switch between the settings on just one of the pickups and just leave the other "fixed" in the setting of your choice.

black+white = north coil start/end
red+green = south coil start/end

idea is that you switch between coils like you would between actual pickups

ah ok. yea, but see what I'm saying is those les paul toggles are really not very flexible. they're really a purpose built switch that doesn't have a lot of use outside it's intended purpose. you would only be able to switch the coils on one pickup at a time with that switch not both pickups at the same time because there's no way for you to keep the leads from the different pickups separate. I would just leave the bridge fixed on the p-90 and just use the switch to change between the neck pickup coils.

another option: ACME Guitar Works has these fat knob mini switches that would work good for this purpose:


http://www.acmeguitarworks.com/DPDT_On- ... P55C11.cfm