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wiring question.

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so, I have a danelectro U2 and I want to strip it down. how can I wire it so that the two lipsticks act as a single humbucker, with a single master volume?
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Aren't the pickups on those already wired in series?
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crazynoises wrote:Aren't the pickups on those already wired in series?
That's what I was thinking too. I think the selector switch just shorts out one half of the humbucking coil made by the two to give you the neck and bridge positions. They use a funky switch though. But if you want to take all the options away, you'd just wire the pups in series and to a volume pot. Whatever wire that comes from the bridge to the switch and the one that goes from the neck to the switch would just get tied together. Then I'd ground the other lead of the bridge and put the other from the neck to the volume pot's outer lug. Other outer lug to ground, and the wiper to the output jack. It will sound pretty much like it does with both tone controls to the brightest setting and the volumes up and the selector in the middle position. It will be a little louder and brighter without the tone control in the circuit.
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