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Clockworkmike said:
This is what i pulled up online, Robert. Dunno if its gonna mess with your current wiring but this will share the middle pickups tone control with the bridge pickup. In the 1st position bridge only, you have independent control over the Tone 2 knob ( lowest) or it will share if you are using bridge and middle View attachment 55509
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That's a nice and simple diagram. maybe I need to just go with a different switch so it will match the diagram???
 
This is the only 7 pole diagram I found online. It doesn't make sense to me. What do you think???

Note how the pickups attach at opposite ends of the switch...


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Robert Herndon said:
This is the only 7 pole diagram I found online. It doesn't make sense to me. What do you think???

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Yeah this seems a little strange honestly. It confuses me with the pick up section and the control section. On all the other diagrams, it looks like the pickups are in the top 3 poles and the controls are in the lower 3, which makes sense since its a double throw ( 2 separate switch poles each controlling a section independently, upon one single controlling switch) or in this case, pole 1 directly from one leg of the pickups and pole 2 is the return from the controls, with the other pickup leg going directly to controls. The switch is interrupting the complete circuit.

On the previous diagrams of the 7 pole import, its typically went (1 bridge, 2 middle and 3 neck. 4 being the common and 5 empty 6 tone 1 and 7 tone 2). By the previous diagram, they are jumping 5 to 6, as 5 is the other pole working with bridge 1 and 6 is the other pole working with middle 2

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Clockworkmike said:
Yeah this seems a little strange honestly. It confuses me with the pick up section and the control section. On all the other diagrams, it looks like the pickups are in the top 3 poles and the controls are in the lower 3, which makes sense since its a double throw ( 2 separate switch poles each controlling a section independently, upon one single controlling switch) or in this case, pole 1 directly from one leg of the pickups and pole 2 is the return from the controls, with the other pickup leg going directly to controls. The switch is interrupting the complete circuit.

On the previous diagrams of the 7 pole import, its typically went (1 bridge, 2 middle and 3 neck. 4 being the common and 5 empty 6 tone 1 and 7 tone 2). By the previous diagram, they are jumping 5 to 6, as 5 is the other pole working with bridge 1 and 6 is the other pole working with middle 2

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Your diagram above makes sense. I can make that happen...
 
Sorry I'm late to this thread & hopefully you already have it sorted Robert.
It can all get very confusing with all the different variations on the 5 way selector switch. I believe you have the 7 inline lug import type Robert, so here's a pretty standard way of wiring it16097136811153090792514675629643.png
I also believe that you want to wire it to have the bridge & middle pickups sharing one tone control along with the standard neck tone control.
To accomplish this, you simply needs to connect stage 2's unused "1" lug to the "2" lug beside it.
This is (almost) the Fender "delta" tone control system, the only difference being they use a "no load" type pot for the shared bridge/middle tone pot. Hope this helps. Cheers
 
ivan H said:
Sorry I'm late to this thread & hopefully you already have it sorted Robert.
It can all get very confusing with all the different variations on the 5 way selector switch. I believe you have the 7 inline lug import type Robert, so here's a pretty standard way of wiring itView attachment 55628
I also believe that you want to wire it to have the bridge & middle pickups sharing one tone control along with the standard neck tone control.
To accomplish this, you simply needs to connect stage 2's unused "1" lug to the "2" lug beside it.
This is (almost) the Fender "delta" tone control system, the only difference being they use a "no load" type pot for the shared bridge/middle tone pot. Hope this helps. Cheers
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Many thanks to @Clockworkmike and @ivan H for the help with this. The newest 7 lug diagram is making more and more sense to my head at long last.
 
Robert, in case you didn't know it, I also dig the YELLOW.

It reminds me of the well known Hot Rod Chevy's of old such as 60's Nova, NovaII, Impala type yellow color.
As a kid dreaming of my own Hot Rod one day, I often considered that color as one I would use on my first self done paint job.

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chilipeppermaniac said:
Robert, in case you didn't know it, I also dig the YELLOW.

It reminds me of the well known Hot Rod Chevy's of old such as 60's Nova, NovaII, Impala type yellow color.
As a kid dreaming of my own Hot Rod one day, I often considered that color as one I would use on my first self done paint job.
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I recall the color form John Milner's deuce coupe in American Grafitti...

This is spray can Rustoleum 'Sun Yellow' over self etching Rustoleum primer with 2 cans of Rustoleum clear over that, color sanded and buffed out.
 
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