[jonesy]

Originally Posted by timkenyon

Hi - new poster.

My project is some way off at the moment not actually owning said guitar. I'm looking at buying the Epiphone Black Beauty 3 (with the Alnico pickups) and want to get the following tone combinations:

1) Bridge only
2) Bridge and Middle
3) Middle only
4) Bridge and Neck
5) Neck only
6) Bridge and Neck

So I have a few questions:
a) Fit a 6-way rotary switch, or fit a 2nd 3-way toggle; 1 for the Bridge only to middle only; 1 for the neck?
b) Any wiring diagrams available for this?
c) Should I go with the 3 vol/1 tone arrangement?

Thanks for any time spent reading/replying. I'm off to lie down and listen to Zepplin - my brain hurts.

If I were going to wire that 3 pu black beauty for myself, I would use 3 way toggle and have it wired normally bridge, bridge/neck parallel, neck and then I would install a push pull in place of one of Tone pots that would activate the middle pickup at any time. So you can have all 3 pu's on at once or neck/ middle or middle/bridge settings. Rotary's can be clumsy and hard to use on the fly. peace, jonesy