Hello all
I have a question for guitar luthiers and modders

its about that time where im about to purchase my second gretsch and im probably going to go with a double jet in gold but i have some ideas on making it my own and have questions to those who know more about moddding a guitar

my first idea is that im an avid jack white fan so how easy would it be to add a middle pup on those guitars

my ideas for the four knobs would be the back three each be tone knobs and all of them push pull pots to kill the sound and the master volume stay the same. Is this doable?

if i dont put a third pickup i would still want the two volumes for each pickups be replaced with tone pots iso i can have more control over my tone i dont enjoy only having one master tone i like to switch pickups a alot and i enjoy having my neck pickup really bassy with the tone turned down and my bridge have more high-end

is any of this even doable? can you put push pulls on gretsch's? Can anyone with any experience help? thank you for reading

Search for a thread by G-Whiz called "triple jet build".

It's possible.

I don't know much about push/pull switches. I do know that you want what you want, but I think it would be more versatile to use three knobs as volumes for each pup and then a master tone. Most of the tone will come from the pickup position, anyway, so I think a blend of the three pups using the volumes and run the added tone knob would fill it out.

I don't know much about push/pull switches. I do know that you want what you want, but I think it would be more versatile to use three knobs as volumes for each pup and then a master tone. Most of the tone will come from the pickup position, anyway, so I think a blend of the three pups using the volumes and run the added tone knob would fill it out.

Be easkier to wire this way too. But then, he wouldn't have independant tone control.

To the OP. What's the purpose of the push pull to kill the pup?

If you keep the thre way switch, you either have Neck, Middle, Bridge as selecting, or Neck, all, Bridge and the kill is somewhat useless (only good in 1 poaition. IF you went 5 way switch of some kind, you would have Neck, Neck/Mid, mid or all 3, mid/bridge, bridge. Cutoff in pos 1, 5 and 3 (depending) would be a silent guitar, what's the use. In pos 2 you could cutoff either neck or middle, but thats the same as pos 1 or 3 (maybe). Same for 4.