Quote Originally Posted by ted s
I looked at Stewart Mac, they have hummers advertised as 2 wire plus a ground that can be split. Will they work ?
I assume you're referring to those Golden Age humbuckers that StewMac sells? If so, the answer is....almost. You can wire them for phase switching, you can do the both-in-series ("megabucker") mod, but you can't do the series/parallel switching within a single humbucker without modifying the stock Golden Age wiring. However, they are set up to be able to do coil-cutting (instructions are right there on the StewMac site), so you may want to do that as an easy alternative. I've found that parallel and coil-cut modes sound very similar--brighter, thinner and a bit lower volume than series--with the major difference being that the parallel mode remains humbucking, while coil-cut is not. But coil-cut will do the job for you tonally, and you don't have to fool around modding the pickups themselves. You'd just need to modify the push-pull switch wiring that I show for the two volume pots per the coil-cut wiring instructions on the StewMac site. Actually, it's a lot simpler than the series/parallel switch wiring.