Hans. Thanks for that as I’m sure I would never have figured that out without your help. It all seems a little over complicated to be honest and I don’t find the phase switch on my S300D to be very usable. If I were lucky enough to find an S70D here in the U.K. I don’t think I would use the micro switches. Maybe I’d be better looking for an S60D. Sam
HowdyThanks. For a period in the late seventies I played in an “all Guild” band. I used an S300D, the other guitarist used an S90 and the bass player used a B301! Do you use a Guild guitar yourself?
I had a beautiful Bluesbird from the nineties but stupidly sold it off! Around the same time I had a Rickenbacker 360/6 - loved how it looked and sounded but couldn’t get on with the sticky lacquered fretboard at all.Howdy
Yeah I mainly used a Bluesbird or M75 into a Marshall or Mesa Boogie.
All the others in the band(s) were Rickenbacker fanatics.
Wow! Two S70s when I have never even got my hands on one. I don’t really like the phase switch on my S300D - Peter Green is my favourite guitarist and I have done the magnet flip on one of my Les Pauls and it works great. On my original S300D I had the pickups re-wired to allow coil splitting and used to he original switch to split the humbuckers. I found that far more useful but, as my 1977 S300D is now close to 47 years old, I’m kind of loathe to start hacking it about. Views welcome!I have two S-70. The first one I purchased acquired had a cracked pickguard and some dings in its brown burst type finish. The interesting thing was it was not wired up in the stock configuration. When I examined the wiring and solder joints they looked "original". Essentially the By-Pass switch was not present. Instead the mini switches were setup so that the "By-Pass" switch reversed the phase between the middle and bridge pickups and the "Phase" switch reversed the phase of the neck and middle pickup. Interestingly the 5-position blade switch was also a "double sided" switch. Only one side being used.
The 2nd S-70 I acquired was a mint black model and it was wired up as per the illustration provided by Hans.
I mentioned the above because I was pretty sure the wiring looked stock on the "brown" S70 and began to think occasionally a wiring mishap may have occurred at the factory.
I never compared the physical wiring between the two guitars as I had altered the wiring on the brown guitar with a middle pickup attenuator with push/pull DPDT switch to use the 2nd side of the 5-position blade switch to bypass the added attenuator. With those changes the mods I made would be indistinguishable from and tampering done by a previous owner.
So in the event the guitar controls don't match the info Hans provided there is the possibility it was wire like the brown S70 I described above.