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Wiring help with unorthodox tele setup

Hey all, I could use some help with wiring up my telecaster. I'm fully aware this might be weird, but I thought it'd be a fun side project. So to get to it, first is the pickups. I plan on having a Staple P90 in the neck, a bill paisley secret agent pickup in the middle, and a normal tele pickup in the bridge. I'd like to have it wired mostly normal on a 3 way switch, where it's Neck, Neck + Bridge, Bridge. I'd also like the Neck P90 to…

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Hey Bryan This is a little unusual but I think it should be possible. The bridge and neck are wired to the 3-way as usual. There's a fixed 470K resistor between the bridge and ground. Using a 500K pot…
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Troubleshooting Intermittent Pickup Output Drop

Hi. I recently got a strat where the middle pickup cuts out intermittently. I cleaned and, using a multimeter, tested all the components. As far as I can tell the pickup itself has an internal break somewhere. After testing the components I wired the middle pickup directly to an output jack. Tapping the top of the pickup caused the output to toggle on and off. I also re-soldered the leads at the pickup eyelets but that didn't resolve the…

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Ran into a similar issue recently with a dimarzio humbucker where it was going dead every now and then. The issue was a broken wire somewhere in the winds, it only worked when the pickup was in a spec…