Two P pickups wired with a 4-way switch

[AlarmClock314]

oops, I just looked at your diagram, and that's exactly what I just recommended - the 4-way tele switch...

Yep, all the coils will remain in series. Just series/parallel in how the two pairs of pups communicate.


Here's the finished diagram:

I think the Wilde P-46's have Blue as the ground and Black as the negative ground. Yellow represents the white wire (hot). What do you think?

 

[RobbieK]

Yeah, just follow that Duncan diagram, you'll be fine mate. I don't know those pickups, but the shield earth is usually the outer braiding of the four-conductor p'up cable, but it's blue in your pic.

You don't need a resistor across the vol pot, and you'll need a capacitor for the tone pot to work. You should look again at the tone pot and cap in the duncan diagram.

If you are new to this, you should get a multi-meter and test the switch and pickup coils, and take a minute or two to think through how this all works.

Oh, and you may want to think about using 500KA pots or a "no-load" tone pot as the series setting will be very thick and muddy sounding.

Best of luck!

 

[AlarmClock314]

You don't need a resistor across the vol pot, and you'll need a capacitor for the tone pot to work.

The resistor is to change the total ohm loading to about 158k and the tone pot is a Invalid Link Removed Bass Ten which has built-in capacitors.

you should get a multi-meter and test the switch and pickup coils.

This is great advice.

Thanks for your input on the diagram!