HELP-need help with wiring of Gibson stock coil tap pots

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I bought a set of stock Gibson pickups with the coil tap pots, the pickups are a Burstbucker 3, and a 57 Classic, the pots are the factory coil tap pots, problem is I don't have any kind of diagram to go by for wiring these up. They are not the typical coil tap pots I'm used to, instead of the tower of connectors on top of the typical pots these only have two terminals on the top of the pot, one of them is grounded to the case and one of the three terminals at the base. Any help with a diagram for these would be greatly appreciated.
 

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I bought a set of stock Gibson pickups with the coil tap pots, the pickups are a Burstbucker 3, and a 57 Classic, the pots are the factory coil tap pots, problem is I don't have any kind of diagram to go by for wiring these up. They are not the typical coil tap pots I'm used to, instead of the tower of connectors on top of the typical pots these only have two terminals on the top of the pot, one of them is grounded to the case and one of the three terminals at the base. Any help with a diagram for these would be greatly appreciated.

The stock gibby push pulls in my SG gt are the "normal" type....

but.. anyway, using your pots......


the white and green wires go together on gibby pups to complete the circuit..... if your not splitting, you tape them off....... to split, you ground them...

SO, the white and red would get wired to the free terminal on the switch part of your pot...... when you engage the switch it connects them to ground (through the other lug which is already grounded to the case) and spilts your coil...

just don't forget to connect the pot to ground.

Red wire is hot on the pup, black and bare wires are ground
 

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Do you by chance have a diagram, my split coil pot looks like a normal pot but has 2 terminals on top, one is grounded to the case.
Thanks
 

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your pot looks like this, correct??
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if installing as the volume...

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I know this is asking a lot, but can you give me a diagram using 2 of these coil tap pots with 2 tone controls and the 3 way toggle? I am wiring this from scratch, the guitar I bought had been gutted, so I went out and bought the parts I needed, problem I ran into was with wiring with the coil tap, wiring without the coil tap was simple, I found a diagram for that, but none using the Gibson push/pull coil tap pots.
Thanks again
 

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