# Two single coils and a bridge humbucker, 5-way blade with auto-split, volume and two tones Canonical page: https://guitarwiring.app/wiring-diagrams/seymour-duncan/hss-five-way-auto-split-volume-two-tones-shared-cap Single coil · Single coil · Humbucker · 5-way blade (auto-split) · One volume · Two tones Seymour Duncan sheet: single coils in the neck and middle and a humbucker in the bridge, on a 5-way blade whose second row grounds the humbucker's red and white in position 2 so the bridge splits when paired with the middle. One volume, a neck tone and a middle tone that share one .047 cap. The sheet prints no pot values. Drawing: https://guitarwiring.app/wiring-diagrams/seymour-duncan/hss-five-way-auto-split-volume-two-tones-shared-cap.svg (back of controls) ## Parts and values - Neck single coil: Neck single coil; generic (Single-coil pickup (two-conductor)) - Middle single coil: Middle single coil; generic (Single-coil pickup (two-conductor)) - Bridge humbucker: Bridge humbucker; generic (Humbucker (four-conductor, Seymour Duncan colours)) - 5-way blade: 5 way blade; compatible example (Oak Grigsby 5-Way) - Volume (value not printed): Volume (no value printed); 250k; compatible example (CTS 250k Audio Pot) - Neck tone (value not printed): Upper tone (neck, no value printed); 250k; compatible example (CTS 250k Audio Pot) - Middle tone (value not printed): Lower tone (middle, no value printed); 250k; compatible example (CTS 250k Audio Pot) - .047 cap: .047 cap (drawn green); 47nF; compatible example (Orange Drop .047µF) - Output jack: Output Jack; compatible example (Switchcraft \#11) - Bridge ground: Bridge ground; generic (Bridge ground wire) ## Specific to this wiring - Title: 2 SINGLE COILS \| 1 HUMBUCKER \| 1 VOLUME \| 2 TONE \| 5 WAY BLADE Auto-Split. - The blade is drawn at an angle. On its upper row the four lugs carry, from the top: the humbucker black, the middle white, the neck white, and a white that loops under the blade to the volume (the row's common). - On the other row the humbucker's red and white go together to the second lug from the top; the lug below it has a black to the upper tone's Solder spot; the top and bottom lugs are drawn empty. - The neck and middle whites each loop over the top of the blade before landing on their lugs; the neck white curls once and the middle-tone wire passes under that curl without joining it. - The humbucker's green and bare, and the neck and middle blacks, go to the volume's Solder spot, which also takes the wire to the jack sleeve and a wire to the upper tone's Solder spot. - The volume's third lug is bent onto the casing under the Solder spot. - Upper (neck) tone: a white from the blade's neck lug goes to its middle lug; the lug next to the lower tone carries the .047 cap to its Solder spot and a short white to the lower tone's middle lug; its remaining lug is drawn with an empty eyelet. - Lower (middle) tone: a white from the blade's middle-pickup lug goes to the lug nearest the upper tone; its middle lug takes the short white from the upper tone's cap lug, so both tones share the one cap; its remaining lug is drawn with an empty eyelet. Its Solder spot takes the Bridge ground wire and a wire from the upper tone's Solder spot. - The source does not number the blade's lugs or positions; the lugs are mapped by what they do. The second row is read from its common, the lug diagonally opposite the first row's common (see the terminal mapping). - Legend: Solder = location for ground (earth) connections. Jack: Tip (hot output); Sleeve (ground). The inner, circular portion of the jack. - The only value printed is '.047 cap'; no pot values are printed. ## Connections 1. Neck black → Volume casing (case, black) 2. Middle black → Volume casing (case, black) 3. Humbucker green → Volume casing (case, green) 4. Humbucker bare → Volume casing (shield, bare) 5. Blade lower row, third lug → Upper tone casing (case, black) 6. Volume third lug → Volume casing (case): Lug bent onto the casing. 7. Volume casing → Jack sleeve (wire, black): Hops the tip wire. 8. Volume casing → Upper tone casing (case, black) 9. .047 cap → Upper tone casing (case) 10. Upper tone casing → Lower tone casing (case, black) 11. Bridge ground → Lower tone casing (wire, black) 12. Neck white → Blade upper row, third lug (wire, white): Loops over the blade with one curl. 13. Middle white → Blade upper row, second lug (wire, white): Loops over the blade. 14. Humbucker black → Blade upper row, top lug (wire, black) 15. Humbucker red → Blade lower row, second lug (wire, red) 16. Humbucker white → Blade lower row, second lug (wire, white): Runs alongside the red. 17. Blade upper row, bottom lug → Volume first lug (wire, white): Loops under the blade. 18. Blade upper row, third lug → Upper tone middle lug (wire, white): Runs round the left of the blade. 19. Blade upper row, second lug → Lower tone lug nearest the upper tone (wire, white): Passes under the neck white's curl and down the far left. 20. Volume middle lug → Jack tip (wire, white) 21. Upper tone cap lug → .047 cap (wire) 22. Upper tone cap lug → Lower tone middle lug (wire, white): Short link: both tones share the one cap. ## What each position does - Position 1: bridge humbucker: Bridge humbucker (both coils). Source: Humbucker black on the upper row's top lug; the floating second common touches only the red & white lug, so nothing is grounded. - Position 2: bridge split + middle: Middle single coil and Bridge humbucker (split to one coil) in parallel. Source: Auto-split: the second row's wiper bridges the red & white lug to the grounded lug. - Position 3: middle: Middle single coil. - Position 4: middle + neck: Neck single coil and Middle single coil in parallel. - Position 5: neck: Neck single coil. - The sheet prints no pot values; 250k stand-ins are used. - The blade's lugs are unlabelled and mapped by function. The second row is read from its common, the empty lug diagonally opposite the first row's common: T8, then T7 (positions 1-2), T5 (2-4), T6 (4-5). - The second pole's common is drawn empty: it floats and only bridges its own throws, so in position 2 it joins the humbucker's red & white to the grounded lug. - Both tones share the one .047 cap: the lower tone's middle lug is wired to the upper tone's cap lug. The engine names only the upper (neck) tone in positions 4 and 5 and does not model the middle tone's route through the shared cap. - Each tone is wired between its signal lug and the cap lug, so it works as a variable resistor in series with the cap; it is modelled as drawn. - Hum cancelling and phase describe the generic pickup models, not a measurement of any specific Seymour Duncan model. - Pickup resistance is not specified, so no numeric meter readings are given. ## Check before plugging in - Position 1: tip to sleeve reads the full bridge humbucker. - Position 2: the humbucker's red & white read ground, and the reading drops to one bridge coil in parallel with the middle. - Positions 3 to 5: the bridge humbucker is out of circuit. - With the volume at zero, tip and sleeve read as a short in every position. ## Source Tinkercaster's own drawing of the Seymour Duncan diagram 2S\_1H\_5W\_1V\_2T\_AS, revision 1. Not the manufacturer's artwork and not endorsed by Seymour Duncan. 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