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| DESCRIPTION
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Fender Mustang-style wiring that basically changes the switching up to have high-pass filters on the neck and bridge pickups (and the ability to combine them). I made this one for Jag-Stang.com sometime probably around 2008-2010 judging by the style.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Similar Theme to above, except the bridge pickup switch just turns the bridge pickup on in both positions in phase. I believe this was a modified version of the request above from around the same time. I was making most of these diagrams using a library of parts I hand-drew myself in Microsoft Paint, and then cut and pasted them into various diagrams, and attached using regular drawing tools.
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| Fender Jaguar
| Fender Jaguar with dual Seymour Duncan SCR1B Cool Rails pickups installed, with coil split and 500K Pots on the lead circuit. Other than that, pretty much a standard Fender Jaguar.
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| Generic HSH Strat
Kramer Focus 3000
Kramer Striker 300ST
Kramer Pacer Deluxe
Fender Stratocaster
Strat Copy Guitars
| Current Wiring for my Kramer Focus 3000 as of 4/2023. I swapped the bridge pickup out with a Duncan Performer Activator humbucker in the bridge (17.5K ohms). This entails different wiring from the non-standard EMG Select pickups I've had in the guitar for the last 20+ years as it's a standard 4-conductor humbucker, and not a E-Z Wire 3-conductor model (I put those EMG Selects in when I was 14).
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| Harmony H802
Harmony H803
Harmony H804
Rogue "36" Student Guitar"
Harmony Marquis
Harmony 2181/2/3/4
| This is the custom wiring I did on my wife's Harmony "H806" - basically it's a 2 "anti-foil" pickup (goldfoils without all the decoration) guitar with a 3-way switch (instead of slide switches), and instead 2 smaller slide switches for phase reverse on the neck pickup, and Series/Parallel allowing for a third, much louder tonal option from the original pickups which are only about 5.3-6.8K each.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Older Diagram for Mustang/Jag-Stang/Duo II that has a low-cut for the bridge pickup in the up position, and phase change (regular wiring) for the neck position pickup. This was another special commission at Jag-Stang.com back int he day that I did using Microsoft Paint.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Older Diagram for Mustang/Jag-Stang/Duo II that has a low-cut for the bridge pickup in the up position, and phase change (regular wiring) for the neck position pickup. This was another special commission at Jag-Stang.com back int he day that I did using Microsoft Paint.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| This is a quick and dirty diagram to show how I do the pickup selection feature on my Mustangs/Jag-Stangs. While it's a full diagram, the key point of focus is the slide switch and how it's wired up to act as a 3-way pickup selector slide switch. While I'm sure this is nothing new, it's just a good point of reference since most of us who were working on Mustangs/Offsets at the time were not looking at Gibson forums where we could see a reverse Firebird with a slide-switch selector.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| This is another diagram for the Jag-Stang that shows the neck pickup switch as a pickup selector, and Coil SPlit/Series/Parallel for the bridge position switch. This IIRC was some kind of request I had on Jag-stang.com for someone else's project guitar. The Volume and tone controls were omitted so i could get the wiring out directly, fine as the Mustang/Jag-Stang/Duo-II have the same wiring across the board.
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| Squier Jagmaster
Fender Jazzmaster HH
Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Jaguar
| This is the wiring of my Green Squier/Fender Jagmaster. This particular diagram is basically an HH "Jazzmaster" circuit that has my tri-mode switching setup, and phase reverse for the neck pickup. It also retains the stock Jagmaster 500K 3-way regular rock guitar wiring on the lead circuit to keep the original sound of the Jagmaster as it left the factory. This should work on a Jagmaster with factory pickups (but it will need some body modification to make the Jazzmaster Pickuard lineup with the screw holes (though a Jagmaster Pickguard could also be modified to accomodate).
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| Fender Jaguar Bass
Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Bass VI
Fender Jaguar
| Wiring Diagram for the Fender Jaguar Bass - mostly just the control plate and blend control. I can't remember if this was mine, or something I downloaded from Jag-Stang though ti looks like one of mine so I'm hosting it here. Basically it's the blend circuit for a Jaguar Bass.
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| Generic HSH Strat
Kramer Focus 3000
Kramer Striker 300ST
Kramer Pacer Deluxe
Fender Stratocaster
Strat Copy Guitars
| Earlier wiring Diagram from circa 2006-2010ish of my 1985 Kramer Focus 3000 when it had an HSH setup that was all EMG Select humbuckers. This was basically the same diagram from high school. As for the filename....welll....PM me. Either way, it explains the controls, which is still current as the new humbucker did not change the control scheme one bit (actually it did add a kill button back, something that was on it when it had an HSS setup back in high school).
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Just a collection of switch ideas done in a "Modular" way to show how I can modify the switching on a Mustang/JAg-Stang/Duo-Sonic II to carry out various tonal modifications including: Phase, Pickup selector, Coil Split/Series/Parallel, Jag-Stang/Cobain Mustang coil split/off/on, Humbucker Series/Parallel, Humbucker Phase Switched stuff. Basically, some E-Z Guides on how to modify your Mustang/Jag-STang/Duo switches to do cool stuff other than the stock options.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Another variation on the C2 Mustang mods on the first two rows of this table. I believe this was another one of those requests where we did several revisions of the design, and then he went with whichever he wanted. This would have been around 2008-2010 I believe, around the same time as the other two designs.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| An earlier revision of Nikki's Wiring (Pre-2008) before adding the EMG Pi2 Phase Inverter in. This was when I had the "tone Switch" setup on the guitar, which basically acted as a phase switch, and a quick "Faux Rhythm Circuit" thing (basically gave me the rolled off tone sound Paul Dean had on "Always On My Mind" on tap).
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| My Jag-Stang (nicknamed "Nikki") current wiring. This is with the Pi2, No Load Tone Control, and other details, including using the tab in the middle of the body for grounding. This version was done in DIY Layout Creator, and I attempted to copycat the PI2 Switchboard as well enough so you could see where the wires go and where they connect (to make it easier). This is for non-modular (Soldered in) EMG components (the pickups are from 1998, the PI2 from 2008), before they had all the EZ clip together stuff.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Another, more stylized diagram from an older website I had. You might be wondering why I have so many versions of the same wiring diagram for the old Jag-Stang, well, it's because I had people ask about it, and I could not always find the files I needed to when I needed them, so I'd just remake the darned thing all over again. I think this one is from around 2013 or so - I can't really remember. Again, just like always, the switch on the PI2 is permanantly on, and the Mustang switch is used to change between the PI2 and regular in-phase operation for the neck pickup.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Another version of the Wiring Diagram for my Jag-Stang - showing how to connect one of the newer modular PI2 Phase inverter units to an older soldered-in setup. IIRC, I gave this to a guy on Jag-Stang.com who was doing similiar wiring on his Jag-Stang and had soldered in pickups but the newer modular-plug Phase inverter Preamp board. I think someone else gave me the wiring diagram for the EMGs with the modular stuff. I may make one one of these days, especially with Fender having put the Jag-Stang back in production as of 2021.
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| Hondo Paul Dean II
2 Humbucker 1v/1t guitars
| This is the original wiring diagram for a Hondo Paul Dean II with 2-conductor humbuckers (Samick X14, DiMarzio K10s, or some other 2 conductor single pickup setup). I used this on my other website that is about Paul Dean's early guitar designs. For those who don't know, Paul Dean is the lead guitarist of the first incarnation of Streetheart, and more famously, the Canadian rock band Loverboy. As you can see, the wiring is dead simple, but it's very effective.
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| Hondo Paul Dean III
Fender Stratocaster
SSS Strat Type Guitars
| This is the original wiring diagram for a Hondo Paul Dean III, which came with 3 single coils (was basically a Stratocaster copy in a Paul Dean body). The original pickups in these were Samick X13s and what makes it unique is it's one of the earliest production guitars with a push-pull control on it (on the volume). This was likely done because Paul Dean's usual Strats have a special wiring diagram I'll approximate later. I used this on my other website that is about Paul Dean's early guitar designs.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| Another request from a jag-stang.com forum user. This is sort of my idea for a Stereo Mustang guitar. Back in the 50's and 60's, a lot of guitar makers had a wild idea of making stereo electric guitars by separating each pickup into it's own side of the stereo spectrum, usually using a stereo cable, and a special splitter box to go to two separate amplifiers. This basically omitted the tone control and switches to make each volume knob a blend control. You might be asking why the ground lug is omitted on the pots - well, that's because when you have 2 guitar pots on volume controls, and both send the signal off to ground, you kill BOTH pickups if you turn the volume down on one. The idea here is to have it where when one pickup is taken out of the picture, the other one remains at it's set volume level. I believe some Gibson Les Paul designs work on the same idea.
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| Fender Mustang
Fender Duo Sonic II
Fender Jag-Stang
| The fancier version of the above. This diagram is for a Fender Mustang (or Jag-STang, or Duo-Sonic II) wired up to operate both as a regular "monophonic" electric guitar, and as a stereo guitar, depending on the switching scheme. Basically, while in Mono, works like my Jag-Stang or any other, using the bridge switch as a pickup selector, and the volume and tone as normal, but when switched into stereo mode, the other hot lug of the jack becomes live, and the two stacked pots are used to swap the controls into a "stereo mode" like the diagram above. This was kind of my idea to make a stereo guitar that was not a one-trick pony, or did not always need to have the stereo gobbledygook to be useful.
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| Odyssey Paul Dean
Hondo Paul Dean II
| This is the wiring that's inside my Hondo Paul Dean II which has period-correct DiMarzio Super II humbuckers in it. I also surmise this should work for the regular Odyssey Paul Dean II, or may even be similar to the wiring found in the "Dean Machine" guitars Paul built himself. This will also be going on my other site. It's mostly there to help people who are a bit inexperienced install a set of Super IIs into a Hondo Paul Dean II if the original type design is what they are after.
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| Memphis 302HB
Kramer Focus VT-211s
Harmony Fat Strats
Samick Fat Strats
Hondo II Fat Strats
| Here's a wiring diagram for Korean Made fat strats, mostly made at the Samick Factory. I presume these were made by Samick, as they all share the same sort of body, but with different necks. This diagram was taken from my 1987 Memphis 302HB Strat Copy (ya' know,the teal one with the Behringer neck) as I had it open in 2023 for some sprucing up. The wiring is a little weird because it uses an EMG-Select style Humbucker wiring scheme (switch between humbucker and single using a selection via toggle vs. grounding off the series link to kill off one coil for split mode).
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| Vester Concert II
Kramer Focus 3000 CN Edition
Any 3 pickup superstrat with an HSH Configuration and individual on/off toggle switches for each pickup.
| So I've been digging around the internet for awhile and found a $70 Sustainer kit that uses push-pull 500K Pots, and decided the test guitar for the first one will be my first electric guitar - the red 1985 Kramer Focus 3000. While generally - most sustainer equipped guitars use the switching to isolate the bridge pickup from the rest of them (and disable the neck and middle pickups) - this setup does not do that. I will be posting, later on, a schematic for the Vester Concert II - as that's a guitar I plan to SELL that will have this same setup - but with a "consumer friendly" approach. But since the Kramer Focus 3000 is my own personal guitar, it's fine if it has a few funky rules. Also, who knows, I might fuck around and find out it sounds cool with the middle pickup or something. One other cool invention going into this mod is an invention that allows the ganging of two single sized pickups, and allowing them to be screwed in like a normal Humbucker - so I can adjust the driver height and the height of the regular pickup together.
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| CN Stallion LX 5.0
Fender K.C. Mustang
Fender Jag-Stang
Any Mustang/Duo/Master guitar with an HS Pickup config.
| This is the diagram for one of my scratch built prototypes that I might be putting up for sale eventually once it's finished. It's a small bodied, lightweight, student-style guitar with an HS configuration and a hardtail bridge. Shortscale of course (24"). This may even also be a useful diagram to help people trying to figure out how to wire an old set of EMG Select Pickups - since that's what I"m using on this early prototype of this model. My plan is to have a few mid-tier level Student-type guitars named after a certain pony-car...but not in the way you think. Stallion LX would be the SS model with the regular body, Stallion GT is the SH model with angular body, the Stallion LX 5.0 is the SH model with a straight bridge humbucker and regular body, and the Stallion GT500 is the HH Angled body version. This variant uses 250K Pots to warm up those moderate output EMG Selects quite a bit.
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| Gibson Flying-V (+copies)
Gibson Explorer (+copies)
Dean Z
Dean ML
Dean V
Any guitar using 3 knob Gibson style wiring (Basically)
| This is the wiring I'm using in the Dean ML-X Rebuild that I'm currently working on. The idea here is to make the closest knob to the picking hand the knob for the bridge pickup (I'm a bridge dominant player), and leverage the Treble Bypass on said pot to allow the pass of high frequencies when using volume in the middle position, allowing for the sweet jangly tone, and then in the neck position, I have a 50's style tone control wiring that keeps the "in-yo-face-ness" of the tone, while rolling it back fattens up the sound into that smooth thing a bit. The idea here is to cater to my own playing style by using wiring that allows full use of the guitar's controls without any of the drawbacks of the classic Gibson circuit.
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| 3-Pickup Superstrats
Jackson
Charvel
Kramer
Fender
Any guitar using 3 pickups and individual toggle switches with a Standalone Sustainer Driver (such as the iSUSTAINER TB60)
| After the glaring success that was the iSUSTAINER TB60 install in my Kramer Focus 3000 (about the only level of organ-jamming that only nature itself can muster I might add), I have made a new, improved diagram. What this one does, is allows faster access to the neck and middle pickups - by cutting the iSUSTAINER off when you use them if the switch is in the "on" position for either of those pickups. They have to be OFF to turn the sustainer back on. This basically assures no screeching/whistling noises if you change to the other two pickups with the sustainer on, and allows for higher performance pickup changes mid-song with a 3-pickup, 3 switch guitar design.
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