has anyone tried the jimmy page wiring?

I am thinking of gutting the chintzy (and poorly modified) wiring in my 80s washburn Falcon and it has room for push-pulls. Usually I am such a traditionalist, but I was thinking of trying the jimmy page wiring with a pair of matched Duncans. Anyone tried it?

http://www.neighborhost.com/images/Jimmy_Page/JP_wiring.jpg

Electronics go right over my head. I've been electrocuted so many times I should have super powers from it. What exactly does this wiring do for the tone?

okay, I should state that I get electronics and have never been shocked by my own work (though I have received many (un) healthy jolts courtesy of morons who should never, ever wield a soldering iron). I f you don't know exactly what you are doing or have the attention to detail to slavishly follow a wiring diagram and KNOW that at least all your ground joints are well soldered then hire a guy like me to do your work. Hell, I will usually throw in a free neck adjust and setup.

So the jimmy page scheme is designed to let you coil tap each pickup, flip phase on the bridge in either mode and master switch both pickups from parallel (stock) to series wiring win middle position on the selector. If your pickups are reverse magnetic polarity and you combine the right 2 coils you will have access to the 'bohemian rhapsody' solo sound, single coil neck w/single coil bridge, out of phase hum cancelling...

Well I do dig that sound. Why don't they call it the Brian May wiring?

Because May's is for 3 single coil Trisonic pickups, has only a master volume and tone and the switches are Fender Jaguar style sliders, not push/pull pots... etc

http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21307-mod-garage-inside-brian-mays-red-special

http://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/images/content/2014_09/Blogs/Oct14_ModGarage/Oct14_PG_CLM_ModGarage_image1_WEB.jpg

The Page wiring is Jimmy Page's personal Les Paul wiring (duh) and covers a little of the same ground... enough for my taste I hope. There's a real May-ness to my washburn I want to exploit a little better. She aready has some push/pull pots so I know there is space for this junk.

I still have my Queen-strat project going too, I am just so sick of soldering on those tiny mini-slider switches that I never finish her!

http://images.equipboard.com/uploads/gear_photo/image/2529/m_20150616_112539.jpg

I spent a lot of time inventing my own hum-cancelling system when I was prototyping it and I just kinda petered out on the whole thing for now. My wiring is really off the hook compared to May's, but owes a great debt to his guitar.

Each single coil pickup has a matched dummy coil in series with it to cancel hum. The dummies are hidden under the pickguard. There's a cap strapped across the hot and ground of each dummy, the cap values tuned to prevent the dummy from affecting the pickup's top end. I couldn't eliminate all the hum while keeping the loading from the extra coil sonically transparent so I had to sacrifice a little bit of sparkle to de-hum my circuit completely... which I then recovered by switching from 250k to 500k pots that pass more treble.

Like May's Red Special, the top row of switches on my strat handle on/off, the bottom three do phase. The pots are push/push pots that switch the middle and bridge pickup to stock strat parallel wiring (quack tone). This also allows you to get the tele neck/bridge parallel sound. This wiring scheme gives you LITERALLY every combination of the 3 pickups in the guitar.

I just wish I had the sense to use good parts in my prototype version, but the thing was a hodge-podge as I tried out different ideas and tuned the hum cancelling by ear... now I am building from scratch again and I am totally having trouble getting motivated.

The washburn will be easy by comparison and should only take me a day to get right, even if I am sloppy about it.