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Hi there people!

I am in a new proyect in doing a 6 string 3/4 scale CBG, and I am almost done.

One single coil and a piezo for that electric and acouctic sound, but I am in a dilema. HOW TO USE THIS SWITCH IN THIS DIAGRAM FROM TED CROCKER?

https://www.cbgitty.com/cubecart/guitar-electronics/switches/basic-3-way-guitar-pickup-toggle-switch.html

I know there is a switch in cbgitty that is the same as the one in the picture,but is golden hahahaha and all my hardware is chrome :P

Another question is: In what position while be good to put the singlecoil? https://www.cbgitty.com/cubecart/pre-wired-6-string-single-coil-pickup-harness-with-volume-and-tone-pots.html I know is prewired ;) I will just put the switch and all the other patrts :D

I wanted to make something really special when I built my 6 string out of the Arturo Fuente King Bee box and overall I think I did. Below is a quick diagram of how I wired it up. Note that the humbuckers need to have the ability to be split. I show 4 wires but actuall there are 5. One is a shielding ground. The wires you need to be concerned with are North Start, North Finish, South Start, South Finish. The switches need to be single pole double throw on-off-on. Some are NOT on-off-on. Be aware of that.

Contrary to common sense, I had to make the tone controls ahead of the volume and any 'blender' pots. I used a .022 uf tone cap from Radio Shack. YMMV. I did use two good sets of pots -- each rated for tone or volume and I tested the resistance first to make sure they matched OR which were which.

Most of all the ground either was common or put specific to a point on the chassis. I didn't really care how or where the pickup grounds were but the pot and the bridge/string/shielding grounds went directly to the (-) of the jack to more or less make the quickest path to ground.

The greatest challenge was figuring out which damn wire what which on the pickups as they didn't have a single piece of documentation. I had to figure it all out based on which set of poles created a current (volt meter helped) and which was N and S (I used a compass, heh). From there it was easy. The pups did have N and B on them so that helped.

Also note that I did have to swap the 1 and 3 leads on the blender later but can't remember why.

I followed this basic diagram from Seymour Duncan:

Best of Luck!

Here is a PDF:
AF6string.pdf

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My Arturo Fuente 6 string wiring diagram

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