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Comment by Paul Craig on May 1, 2019 at 8:13pm

I understand how to do coil splits on a humbucker, but how exactly are you splitting the coils to have low strings and high strings separated when the coils run under all the strings?

Only way I know to achieve this is to split the coils in each humbucker and remove poles under some of the strings. Is this the way you did it? Good idea and a good way to even out the tone.

I've seen this easily accomplished with Fender 3 pole pickups like the split ones used on 12 string guitars. They just separate the the pickups and wire to separate pots and stereo jack.

Comment by Allan Zolnekoff on May 1, 2019 at 7:46pm

I was told that building a guitar like this was impossible. But I persisted. This baritone has 2 five way switches and 3 humbuckers. Each humbucker has 5 output wires and is split in half electrically. The high strings, 1-3, are routed toma regular guitar amp. The low strings, 4-6, go to a bass amp. The stereo output jack sends the signal through a stereo output guitar cord to a splitter box. From the box, 2 cords go to a bass amp and a guitar amp, The stereo sound is amazing! 

There are 24 different sounds that vqn be made by this baritone guitar - without any effects boxes. With 2 five way switches, many sonic adventures are easy to attain

On other electric guitars that I have played, the tone control knobs were kind of useless, so I only installed 2 volume controls and eliminated the tone knobs. For setting the tone, I  just adjust the amp. 

Comment by Allan Zolnekoff on May 1, 2019 at 7:35pm

My baritone guitar features B to B tuning. (Instead of string 1 and 6 being an E, it is down three steps to B to B, This tuning makes it easy for a guy to sing and play guitar! 

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