Silhouette Special re-wired! (video inside)

After more than a year of idle threats, I finally re-wired my Silhouette Special and even made a little vid to show off the new tones. The changes are in posns 2 and 3, which now have the full humbucker in parallel with the middle and neck single coils (with silent circuit), rather than just one coil from the humbucker. Position 3 is the killer – sounds like a cross between the middle positions on a Tele and an LP. Funky!!

Skip ahead to 4:50 for the actual sounds and playing (yes, I…

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