https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:38:41 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-357910 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:11:58 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Jmann https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-357910 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-357904 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:51:23 +0000 Guitar Repair and Maintenance Jmann https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-357904 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-39404 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:23:00 +0000
I like the strat sound, but I also play a lot of different styles (covers and function bands), so my idea was to have hot rails in each position.

I've not had much luck with coil splitting in the past (volume drops and hum mostly) so I was thinking about trying a series-parallel switching option for each pickup.

So here is the idea:

3 on-on-on toggles instead of the 5 way.

position 1 - off for each pickup
position 2 (middle) - Parallel (I hear that you can get a noise free, single coil-ish sound from hotrails like this)
Position 3 - full humbucker


this, in theory, would give me a sort of strat option, humbucker option, and all of the bridge/neck/all three combinations too.

would this work?
how might one go about wiring it?


Many thanks

Jamie]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance upsidedownside https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/hot-rails-wiring-idea-is-it-possible/#post-39404