Whether series or parallel, RW/RP will give you a quiet middle position. What series requires is a separate ground lead for the cover of the pickup (3 leads). I don't know whether 3 leads are standard for the lipsticks from Curtis, but he could easily set them up that way so be sure to mention it. The vintage Danelectros had 3 leads so I doubt Curtis would cut it down to 2 by default but better safe than sorry.jaskah wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:48 pmso, if i were to go with this idea of series wiring would i need to order the pickups as RW/RP? were the original lipsticks on dan electros, etc RW/RP? it seems they were wired in series.
so, the consensus is to go with the novak low wound 3.4k – 4.0k lipsticks. i just need to know if they should be RW/RP.
and thanks for all this great information. i'm learning a lot here.
No offense, but a lot of things you wrote here were wrong. There's no "faking" RW/RP, when two single pickups are combined in either series or parallel, the only way to get both humcanceling and an in-phase tone is for the magnetic polarities and wind direction to be opposite (the latter being reversible by reversing leads, if the covers ground is independent of the coil start lead).
Old Danelectros only had 1M tone pots. The volume pots were 100k. Big difference.
Lastly, there is no "side effect" of two pickups bleeding into each other in their individual switch positions when wiring a combined series position.
