minifox13 said: any coil splits on fenders or gibsons?(sorry for all the noob questios ☹ )
I don't know if they've got coil splitting options for humbuckers.. I believe it's pretty rare at least.
This is what I've heard, not all my personal experience:
- Many stock humbuckers used by Fender/Gibson have only 2 conductors (or 1 + ground), so the coils are connected in series, period. That's quite difficult to split, trying to dig out the serial connection might destroy the pickup totally. Some can do it, but there's the risk.
- If you buy e.g. a Seymour Duncan (or Dimarzio, ...) humbucker, you most often get (and you can make sure you do get) a "4-conductor" humbucker, which is easier to connect in many ways cause there are separate wires for both ends of both coils. You can do e.g. coil splitting (use only one coil of the humbucker = single coil), basic humbucker operation (2 coils connected in series) and parallel operation (2 coils in parallel, sounds pretty much like singlecoil but with hum-cancelling)... If you don't wanna solder it, someone at the local guitar shop should be able to do it. Just decide what kinda options you need!
- There are a lot of ready modifications explained around the www, you can always print the schematic you want and ask someone to wire your guitar that way. Here's a couple of sites:
http://www.guitarnuts.com/index.php
http://www.guitarelectronics.com
