Wiring 2 Pickups with Tone Control Board?

I am building a new guitar based on this box:

I cut the wood lid to fit the candy tin. I plan on using a Klangbox 3-pole pup on the neck and I would like to put a mag pup inside the tin to pick up on the lid. I have materials for a couple options and I don't have enough experience to know which is best.

I have a cheap strat pup pre-wired with volume and tone control (from C.B. Gitty). I could add the Klangbox pup via a 3 way switch and maybe moving some wires around or splicing into the volume and tone control. as supplied.
I have a pre-wired guitar tone control board like this one:http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Guitar-Control-Board-Switch/dp/B005LB03LE Since no wiring instructions were included for the under $10 item, I'm not quite sure what to do with it, but I haven't looked at it much yet.

With option 1, my impression is I could use the 3-way switch to use neck, tin, or both pickups and use the volume and tone controls from the cheap strat style pickup.

With option 2, it appears that I could maybe choose neck, tin or blend of both and I could adjust the blend with additional tone control? Not sure.

In either case, I would appreciate some advice on what will yield the best result.

The rest of the construction is fairly simple. I have an oak neck that I will stain ebony. It will be fretted and I'm trying to find some red formica for inlays on frets 3, 5, 7, 10 and 12.

Thanks for the help and advice.

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The Phrygian Kid April 12, 2012 at 4:23pm

Just clip the hot wire between pickup and vol pot. The hot is the one that goes to the lugs on the pot. This is where you insert the switch, the centre lug on the switch feeds the vol pot, the hot from the pup to one side, the hot from the new pup to the other.. The ground from the new pup piggybacks onto the ground from the other one
- Bad Finger (Eric) > The Phrygian Kid April 12, 2012 at 4:34pm
  
  Gotcha. Thanks.
  - robert jones > Bad Finger (Eric) April 13, 2012 at 7:46am
    
    Do it right instead of sloppy. Cutting and splicing the wiring harness would be a half-assed approach. Splicing in is for emergencies or inaccessible points, neither of which apply here.
    
    The idea in audio wiring is to have the minimal number of connections required for the circuit. This cuts down on potential connection related noise and makes any trouble shooting of the wiring simpler.
    - Bad Finger (Eric) > robert jones April 13, 2012 at 8:38am
      
      I think everything is close enough that I can do as both suggested and not be sloppy.
Bad Finger (Eric) April 11, 2012 at 1:03pm

A reply, so someone thinks there are replies, so I maybe can get a reply. :P /end smartazz.

The neck of this guitar is all shaped and I'm almost ready to plug in the soldering iron. I have a different idea about maybe putting a spring inside the tin and putting the pup on that instead of the lid. The pup on the spring will be off 90* from the lid so it only sees the spring. Can't wait to try it out.
- robert jones > Bad Finger (Eric) April 12, 2012 at 10:23am
  
  Artec Sound wiring diagrams page 11
  
  Option 1 - you need to de-solder then re-solder as needed with the additional components in the circuit to match the diagram.
  
  Option 2 - just add pickups wired per the diagram.
  - Bad Finger (Eric) > robert jones April 12, 2012 at 1:44pm
    
    Thanks for the reply. Careful that linky. It redirects on me using Google Chrome. However, I was able to get to the book by manually keying in artecsound.com and then navigating to the wiring book.
    - robert jones > Bad Finger (Eric) April 13, 2012 at 7:30am
      
      My bad, extra http:// at the end caused the redirect.

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