Salmon Blush?

Wasn't there a 3-P90 Standard that used the switching you're describing (ie. regular 3 way with push pull for middle pickup)? Anyway, I prefer a 5 way blade with a push-pull (or, better yet, miniswitch) as a bridge-always-on switch myself. That way I don't have to readjust my thinking too much to get all the combinations.
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To answer the question Yes there is a 3-p90 standard but the wiring is three way switch vol for neck and bridge, master tone and vol for middle pickup only. Hamer was willing to put a push pull pot in the guitar but said it wouldn't be up to their standards. The current wiring was what they suggested. It works well and gets some amazing tones.

 
Wasn't there a 3-P90 Standard that used the switching you're describing (ie. regular 3 way with push pull for middle pickup)? Anyway, I prefer a 5 way blade with a push-pull (or, better yet, miniswitch) as a bridge-always-on switch myself. That way I don't have to readjust my thinking too much to get all the combinations.
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To answer the question Yes there is a 3-p90 standard but the wiring is three way switch vol for neck and bridge, master tone and vol for middle pickup only. Hamer was willing to put a push pull pot in the guitar but said it wouldn't be up to their standards. The current wiring was what they suggested. It works well and gets some amazing tones.
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So the middle pickup is always 'on' and is brought in and out of the mix with the volume control?

 
So the middle pickup is always 'on' and is brought in and out of the mix with the volume control?
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Not quite how I thought of it but essentially yes. The nice thing is that you can blend in the amount of middle pickup you want depending on where you set the vloume knob. The only drawback is that you can't do a toggle switch stutter.

 
The only drawback is that you can't do a toggle switch stutter.
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I call that a GOOD thing. Serial's got the market cornered on that trick LOL!
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It's his ONLY weapon, that loser.
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My chief weapon is surprise. Fear and surprise.

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Wonder if Hamer would consider doing their 80's switching system for H-S-S pickup arangements. A three way toggle and a two way toggle. IIRC, with the two way in position 1, you got

bridge only

middle only

neck only

from the three way.

With the two way in position 2, you got

bridge only

bridge/middle

neck/middle

from the three way.

So on their 80's SS1's and Prototypes, you got all the standard combinations other guitar companies offered with a 5 way selector, but using two switches.

I guess if you didn't mind drilling a hole and adding another switch, you could modify the wiring on a guitar like that Studio Custom to Hamer's 80's H-S-S wiring scheme easily and without much danger of really screwing up the front of the guitar, long as you don't slip with that drill!

 
Hamer was willing to put a push pull pot in the guitar but said it wouldn't be up to their standards.
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I didn't want to name names because I could remember which Mike it was /emoticons/default_wink.png. As to not wanting to use a push-pull because of quality reason, Ron Thorn recently came to the same conclusion on his guitars, which puts Hamer in good company as far as I'm concerned.

-Austin

 
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