Pickup wiring mod

superchargednut

Hi! I have a 1969 Mustang and want to mod it in the following way:

I wish to have a new pickguard without holes for the pickup switches.

I wish for both pickups to be 'on' at all times.

I wish for the master volume knob to control ONLY the neck pickup, so that when it's down, I only hear the bridge pickup.

This is because of my preferences, I never use the neck pickup alone but sometimes use it with the bridge pickup (usually out of phase but i've no idea if that complicates my wants!!)

Is this posible?

Libtoem

Well you could wire it similar to a jazz bass but with no tone,just two master volumes for each pickup.Thats how I wired my jag and it sounds great,for the bridge pickup I have a 250k and for the neck pickup I have a 500k,you can even blend in both pickups.

superchargednut

That sounds fine. So both pickups' tones would be as though the tone dial was at full?

And how exactly would I wire it this way? 😀

Libtoem

Yes,also I will draw you up a schematic here in a bit.

superchargednut

Libtoem said:
Yes,also I will draw you up a schematic here in a bit.

Superb, thank you!

Libtoem

Here you go.

Just remember you can use two different pots,like 500k on the bridge and 1meg on the neck for example.

superchargednut

Libtoem said: Just remember you can use two different pots,like 500k on the bridge and 1meg on the neck for example.

That's superb, thank you. But, being completely new to this, could you elaborate on the above please?

Libtoem

What I mean is since your using two master volumes for each pickup you can use different pots on each pickup to get different tones if you wanted to.Like on my Jag for the bridge I have a 250k and for the neck I have a 500k,but you don't have to do what I did,you can use the same value pots of your choosing.