Music master wiring

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:45 am

IÂ´m building a Â´63 musicmaster and try to figure out the wiring with a hot rail and a standard single coil. At the moment the hot rail is soldered as a single coil.

- is this toggle switch on the diagram a standard Paula toggle? seems like a 2 level switch..
http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/sup ... cs/duo.jpg

- the 2 single coils have the same direction, the neck PU looks not reverse wound, bacause their both black wires have the same direction.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:17 am

Getting a big ol 403 forbidden on that diagram link.

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 8:55 am

oops..fixed.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:34 pm

Yeah they're showing a double throw switch there, which I've never seen on a 3-way of that sort. That said, ignore the other side.

Also, if you were to use a 5-way switch, you could have these as your five positions:

Bridge humbucker, Bridge Hum + Neck, Neck, Bridge Split + Neck, Bridge Split

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 9:13 am

honeyiscool wrote:Yeah they're showing a double throw switch there, which I've never seen on a 3-way of that sort. That said, ignore the other side.
...

ok, but wheres the ground lug on the switch in the schematic when these are the three switch lugs?
wtf??

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:54 am

That diagram looks weird to me, is it wired in series or something?
I would use the diagram on page 6 from here.

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:06 pm

well, when I use the DS wiring, I never get TWO pickups, just bridge or neck, even in middle position theres only the neck.
..same with a 2 HB, 1 vol, 1 tone, toggle- schematic, only less hum.
I guess thats the reason why a melody maker has separate vol and tone for each pickup. so, maybe theres only one alternative, to use a Tele switch..
IÂ´m just wondering if a standard DS wiring works with selection of bridge, both and neck.

or maybe an ON-ON-ON-switch?
http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wi ... =3ws_trans

bigbluezuk · Post by **bigbluezuk** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 4:45 pm

jamba72 wrote:well, when I use the DS wiring, I never get TWO pickups, just bridge or neck, even in middle position theres only the neck.
..same with a 2 HB, 1 vol, 1 tone, toggle- schematic, only less hum.
I guess thats the reason why a melody maker has separate vol and tone for each pickup. so, maybe theres only one alternative, to use a Tele switch..
IÂ´m just wondering if a standard DS wiring works with selection of bridge, both and neck.

I had the same problem with the SD DS wiring diagram. I think that their switch is different or something, IE not on/on/on maybe? What I did was use the tele-style like previously mentioned by AddamInsane and then this link shows how to wire it to the on/on/on toggle. The problem is that you have to use both sides of the switch and then bridge the middle terminals with the output wire (to the volume pot).

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wi ... =3ws_trans

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:52 am

I found a foto of a Music Master wiring, they really used a strange switch originally..

IÂ´ll try a 3way or 5way-tele switch, as I dont know exactly now what PU combination IÂ´ll use at the end( for split, series, parallel etc) .
At the moment I have 2 Stratocaster PU in it, the sound is much better than the humbucker..
this body SWINGS..

sapele wood sounds MUCH better than poplar.