USA Hamer Centaura Position 2

[DyersEve]

I have a '93 USA Hamer Centaura in granite finish, rosewood board in pristine and stock condition. JB in bridge, SL-1 neck and middle. I would like to know if position 2 (half of JB and middle pickup is hum canceling. I do get hum canceling in position 4 (middle and neck pickups).

I'm asking because I have an Ibanez Prestige AZ2204 H-S-S. Position 2 is hum canceling. 

[RobB]

Does it hum in position two? If it does, it is not hum cancelling.

[BubbaVO]

The Centaura was a fun guitar.  

[DyersEve]

3 hours ago, RobB said:

Does it hum in position two? If it does, it is not hum cancelling.

WOW, there's a revelation! Your quantum physics class with Professor Hawking really paid off. 

What a warm welcome to the Hamer Comedy Club!! 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jimbilly]

there's plenty more of that around here! 

  "position 2" on my '90 Centaura really seems to be both halfs of the humbucker and the middle pup, so I can't say about yours. My ibanez slm10 (hss) seems to split the hum on pos-2, and makes some significant hum there compared to just the humbucker, - so that info is probably no help (really really nice guitar btw). 

[holLoWskull]

In “as wired from the factory” stock form position 2 on a Centaura (with passive pickups) was not wired to be hum cancelling (you’re getting both coils of the JB mixed with the SSL-1 middle).  If you’re handy with a soldering iron you could easily connect the red and white wires from the humbucker to the position 3 lug on the other side of the 5-way blade switch and run a ground wire from the common lug on that same side of the switch to a volume or tone pot casing and you’ll have hum cancelling in position 2.

[DyersEve]

2 hours ago, holLoWskull said:

In “as wired from the factory” stock form position 2 on a Centaura (with passive pickups) was not wired to be hum cancelling (you’re getting both coils of the JB mixed with the SSL-1 middle).  If you’re handy with a soldering iron you could easily connect the red and white wires from the humbucker to the position 3 lug on the other side of the 5-way blade switch and run a ground wire from the common lug on that same side of the switch to a volume or tone pot casing and you’ll have hum cancelling in position 2.

Much thanks! 

[Saul Goodman]

On 8/23/2025 at 7:01 PM, DyersEve said:

WOW, there's a revelation! Your quantum physics class with Professor Hawking really paid off. 

What a warm welcome to the Hamer Comedy Club!! 

 

 

 

 

 

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