Leaving out the tone knob/ many humbuckers

All the wiring diagrams I see have a tone pot in the diagram..unless only 1 pickup is used.. Need some help wiring 4 simple humbuckers together. NO TONE pot...
I'm not sure if the diagram exists and I really don't know if it should be parallel or series.
Just trying to come up with a cool electric instrument with about 4-6 humbuckers , volume (ground) and jack. No tone.
Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 18, 2016 at 8:19am

No tone pot (drawing got cut off) ? .. Still this is amazing.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 18, 2016 at 8:39am

No tone pot in the drawing, that was the ground wires coming together to the volume pot.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 18, 2016 at 8:36am

both reply and drawing got cut off? Thank you
I get it with the 4 pickups and switches ...just wanted to know if there was a tone at the cut off part. I don't think so...but I guess I could just study. These diagrams are priceless.

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 21, 2016 at 12:02am

no, the picture is just a little wider than the frame allocated to display it. click the photo of the wiring diagram paul pasted and it will open and let you see the whole diagram.

BTW, EXCELLENT diagram Paul, TXH!

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 21, 2016 at 5:44am

LOL

Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 21, 2016 at 5:50am

All too familiar ..nah. Almost.

Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on June 21, 2016 at 10:19am

Hahahaha

Permalink Reply by JL on December 9, 2016 at 2:05am

Love the diagram Wayfinder, accurate to a fault!

BTW, where do you get your component clip art?

Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 18, 2016 at 9:47am

may now do a tone pot after all ..never have. Is a capacitor necessary? If so what kind..does the type depend on the pot type 250k, 500k etc? Not sure what capacitor it's used for. Thx

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 18, 2016 at 10:33am

With HB's you'll want a A500k for volume, a B500k for tone and a.022uf cap. This is the norm for HB's. You could use 250k pots for brighter tone of 1meg pots for dark tone. Tone cap is necessary and the values can be changed: lower values for brighter tone - higher values for darker tones. Just depends on your likes.

I would start with the normal 500k pots with a .022 cap and make changes later if you want.