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You can make it work with a 3 way switch, but when you wire the toggle for series parallel it bypasses the 3-way and just makes it slightly messier. with a 4 or 5 way switch you can by-pass the need for an extra toggle all together so its just a little less messy with the wiring.

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Okay, here's what I'm trying to pursue if it's possible at all. So far I haven't found a way to do it but I think it would be great to have, on a two humbucker guitar, 1 vol 1 tone and two 5-way switches that produce the following for each humbucker:

1. Series
2. Parallel
3. Single coil
4. Phase reverse
5. Off

One switch could be wired "upside down" so that when you flip them both up, you have neck series, flip down to bridge series. Now I know I can't do this with a cheap import 5-way switch because I mapped out the possibilities and it won't happen, but I wonder if there's a switch out there that will do this.

Basically I wanna have series, parallel and coil split for each pickup without having a retarded amount of switches. I also thought of, and I don't know if this is possible either, to use Stewmacs Free-way switch do something like this:

1. N/P 2.N/S
3. N/B/P 4.N/B/S
5. B/P 6.B/S

N=Neck P=Parallel S=Series B=Bridge

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Check this out. It should get the job done for you. http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Electronics ... witch.html

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Yep. That's what I went to right after I posted that. I also checked out some of Mykas wirings, such as this one which I like: http://www.mykaguitars.com/instruments/104/default.htm
Except I'd get rid of the cap1/bypass/cap2 stuff. Sure beefs up the price of wiring; that'd be 60 bucks just for the switches. May just be worth it though.

This one would cost less and be simpler: http://www.mykaguitars.com/instruments/083/default.htm And I'd sans the piezo and bridge blower. Just the vol, tone and 5-way with push pulls. I like that. Now to figure out how to wire it....

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I would just advise not to go to overboard with it, myka does some really complex wiring schemes which are intended for specific customers who want that type of versatility, but with that many options it can become easy to get lost in a sea switches and wiring spaghetti. Just try and figure out which options you will really use, and which ones you won't. In my opinion the fewer switches you can get by with the better. It may be that you just really need to have 60 bucks worth of switches, but I don't think that most people do.

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