5 Position Super Switch

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3Position four pole lever style superswitch. Create custom switching configurations with any pickup combination including coil tap, phase series/parallel and other options not possible with a standard 3-way lever switch.

Electroswitch Oak Grigsby 4 Pole Double Wafer Blade "Super" Switch 5 Position

Electroswitch Oak Grigsby 4 pole blade switch. 5 position for Fender Stratocaster or similar applications.

The new improved Super Switch lets you wire guitars in imaginative ways not possible with our other 5-way switches. It's a special 4-pole switch with six lugs per pole (one common and one each for the five lever positions. This gives you unparalleled control over pickup and coil selection.

Terminal assignment: There are a total of 24 solder terminals (lugs) on this switch. The switch is divided into four separate circuits, or poles, and each pole has six lugs. Lug 0 is the common which is connected to other lugs depending on the lever's position. The five other terminals on each pole correspond to the five positions of the switch. Lug #1 = position 1, Lug #2 = position 2, etc.

Many lever switches use the commons as outputs for the switch, but with this switch this is not necessarily going to be the case. The commons of this switch can be used to connect pickups together in ways not possible with other switches. This is an important concept to understand when designing custom wiring for this switch.

Five-position blade pickup selector switch ideal for four-conductor pickups. Includes a white tip for a Stratocaster and a black "barrel" tip for a Telecaster. Used on U.S.-made Fat Strat and Double Fat Strat models, and on Nashville Telecaster models. Mounting hardware included.

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...most references to superswitches will refer to 4-pole switches, not this 2-pole switch. We sell the 4-pole switches as well, so be sure you know which you need. If any doubt, contact us and we'll help you out.

This Oak-Grigsby 2-pole superswitch is very useful for certain wiring. It's most often used in a Nashville Tele (Tele with a Strat pickup added in the middle), but can be used in a Strat-style guitar that has a master tone control (a 2-control guitar, like an Ibanez or Suhr), where the Nashville Tele's pickup selection is desired:

In order to achieve the wiring above, both of the switch's poles are used. So there is no pole available to make tone control assignments, hence the requirement for a master tone control that is fed from the volume pot, rather than from the switch. Essentially this wiring marries the 1/2/4/5 positions of a Strat with the middle position of a Tele. If you're the player of a Strat-style guitar who likes the idea of the neck/bridge combination more than the middle pickup by itself, then this may be an option for you!

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Outfit your Fat Strat, Double Fat Strat, and Nashville Tele guitar with this fully-compatible five-position selector switch. Mounting hardware is included, making installation easy, while white and black tips are included to match your model of instrument.

Features:

-Five-position blade pickup selector switch

-White tip for a Stratocaster

-Black "barrel" tip for a Telecaster

-Mounting hardware included

I'm Josh and I 'm totally new to the forum. I'm currently working on a friends 94 tex mex special telecaster with a 5 -way single wafer super switch. It has a standard tele bridge single coil, and a four conductor humbucker in the neck. The previous owner had taken the factory Fender humbucker out and installed a Gibson humbucker, which he had wired as a three way. My goal is to return it to factory specs. This is proving to be a little trickier than I had previously thought it would be.

I found a couple of wiring diagrams for it, but none of them have worked all the way. They've either given me odd combinations or dead spots on the switch. The dead spots are generally positions 2 and 4. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with wiring this particular guitar. There seems to be very little wiring resource material online for it. After exhausting every wiring resource I knew of online, I even contacted Fender technical support and they were unable to provide me with a wiring diagram.

6-position and 10-position Blade models look and feel just like traditional blade switches - except that they provide an additional bank of positions where all the 'missing' pickup combinations are instantly available. Completely intuitive to use, retro-fittable and visually undetectable - the Free-Way Blade switches provide unrivalled tonal freedom.

I'm trying to think of a way to get them both in series. I've thought of one, but it would mean having the neck pickup connected to the hot lead (i.e. as an antenna) when the bridge is selected. And even that would require an ON-ON-ON switch, which I've only seen as a min-toggle.

You could instead leave the main switch as is and add a push pull pot to switch the parallel to series. This is a common mod for tele style guitars and jazz basses. (and something I'm planning on doing to one of each of those )

I think the five way swith on some of Schecter's 2 HB guitars do that kind of switching - between parallel and series. I could be wrong about that, though, and I don't know exactly how it's wired. I do remember seeing that somewhere, though. It may be the Blackjack guitars, but some model in Schecter's line has a 5-way swith and push-pull pot that allows coil tapping and series/parallel wiring.

Yeah, with a 5-way there's all kinds of options. Fender makes the Super-Switch which is a 4 pole 5 position switch. Compared to the standard strat switch which is really a 2 pole 3 position switch with bridging. The super switch opens up all kinds of posibilities.

What might be more useful would be to have the middle position be either the two outer coils or the two inner coils wired in series - you'd get comparable output levels to the other two positions, but a different sound.

We got this heavy duty 3way 4 pole super switch for Tele from Germany after a long time research for high quality and durability switch. The switch makes possible the PGNCS T installation with RWRP pickups set!

If you have hum canceling at position 2 of the 3 way Tele switch (Bridge + Neck pickup together) you can use this switch without changing the magnetic polarity of one of the pickups, or ordering a new non RWRP pickup

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