Andy Timmons AT model: three humbuckers on a five-way Super Switch

Parts and values

“Example part” means any part with the same value and lugs will do; the source does not name a brand. “Generic” stands in for an unspecified pickup: check your own pickup's lead colours before you solder.

Specific to this wiring

• The 5-way switch is wired: Position 1 = Neck; Position 2 = Neck & Middle; Position 3 = Middle; Position 4 = Middle & Bridge Split; Position 5 = Bridge.
• The sheet counts positions from the neck; the simulator counts them from the bridge, so the sheet's position 1 is simulator position 5.
• On the neck and middle pickups the black and white leads are joined and insulated; each joint touches nothing else.
• The bridge pickup's black and white leads go together to one switch tag, which is grounded only in the middle-and-bridge position.
• The bridge tone works only in the bridge position; the neck/middle tone works in the other four.
• The Super Switch tags are not labelled in the source, so they are mapped by what each does against the catalog contact table.
• The source specifies 500K custom-taper pots. The simulator treats them as linear, so settings between the knob ends are approximate.

Connections

In soldering order: grounds first, then the switch, the pickups and the signal path.

What each position does

Checked with the Tinkercaster wiring engine against the switching the source describes.

• The source's custom-taper pots are not reproduced: they are simulated with a linear track, so settings between the knob ends are approximate.
• Hum cancelling and phase describe the generic humbucker models, not measured Cruiser or AT-1 pickups; the single-size stacked Cruiser is modelled as a two-coil humbucker.
• Pickup resistance is not specified, so no numeric meter readings are given.

Before you solder

• Identify every lead on your pickups against the source's colours.
• The 5-way switch is wired: Position 1 = Neck; Position 2 = Neck & Middle; Position 3 = Middle; Position 4 = Middle & Bridge Split; Position 5 = Bridge.
• The sheet counts positions from the neck; the simulator counts them from the bridge, so the sheet's position 1 is simulator position 5.
• On the neck and middle pickups the black and white leads are joined and insulated; each joint touches nothing else.
• The bridge pickup's black and white leads go together to one switch tag, which is grounded only in the middle-and-bridge position.
• The bridge tone works only in the bridge position; the neck/middle tone works in the other four.
• The Super Switch tags are not labelled in the source, so they are mapped by what each does against the catalog contact table.
• The source specifies 500K custom-taper pots. The simulator treats them as linear, so settings between the knob ends are approximate.
• Use a small amount of solder, heat both surfaces, and hold the joint still as it cools. Lead-free solder may have a matte finish.

Ticks are kept in this browser only, as a reminder. They are not a check of your joints. New to soldering? Read the soldering cheat sheet.

Check before plugging in

• In each position the meter across the jack should read the pickups listed; in the middle-and-bridge position the bridge should read about half its full value.
• The upper-row left-end switch tag should read to ground only in the middle-and-bridge position.
• Each insulated black–white joint on the neck and middle pickups should read open to ground.

Measure across the output jack with a multimeter on its resistance range. No exact readings are given where the source does not specify the pickups.