How To Rewire A 340 For Middle Pickup Volume

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How To Rewire A 340 For Middle Pickup Volume

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Does anyone know how to rewire a 340 so that the middle pickup volume is controlled by the little knob only(blend or what ever they call it)? I want to be able to have control over the middle pickup only, not how it is currently wired with the neck pickup. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.
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Here's one way I found.

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/guitars/rickenbacker/

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Welcome David!


I am a wiring dummy, so I can't really help. Just being the welcoming committee... :)
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Thank you for the welcome, I appreciate it! As well as for the info in the post previous. I haven't looked inside the guitar yet, but I hope that info does apply to the 340 as well. Thanks guys!
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I've always thought it would be cool to wire up a three pickup Rick so one could either have standard Rick type sone and volume controls, then at the flick of a hidden switch somewhere (without drilling into the body, of course!), be able to have five way Strat type switching. I have no idea how to accomplish this. I also do not presently own a three pickup Rick, but that could always change. :D
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pompeii0 wrote:Does anyone know how to rewire a 340 so that the middle pickup volume is controlled by the little knob only(blend or what ever they call it)? I want to be able to have control over the middle pickup only, not how it is currently wired with the neck pickup. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you.

I have a 370 / 12 i did the iiipopes tonemod plus toaster pups .
Go to the Rickenbacker int. forum search iiipopes tone mod
With pushpull switch in place of the little knob pickup selector switch up and pushpull up .
You have the middle pickup only and volume is controlled by the bass volume knob
I would check it out my 370 / 12 sounds great


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