I should be able to answer this myself but am on vacation away from my JTVs. . .well actually I have one with me, but no tools to open her up and even if I did, it is hard to make out which wires are what.

I am picking up my second JTV xplant next week. It is actually my old purple flame, double bound tele that had variax 500 guts. Just had it updated to JTV guts and duncan pearloid p rails. I love the versatiliy the p rails add but have some questions.

1- has anyone added a 3rd pickup to a 59 or 89? I would love to have these guys be HSH and maybe put sumthin whacky in the middle. A p90, or mini hum, or maybe even a pearloids strat middle pickup.

I seem to remember my luthier finding the pickup and switch wiring weird but don't remember the reason. Maybe the switch only sends 2 wires to mobo so he didn't believe that one switch controlled it all? If that is the case I assume the pickups get connected at the board as well. I don't have a 69 to compare it to to see how the 3 pickup wiring is different than 2. I would even be willing to cram a 5 way into these puppies if I could add a 3rd pick up.

2- along the same lines. Does anyone know if it would be possible to just add a seperate switch por the mags? I would much prefer contolling mags and models seperately. Being able to lock model pick up selector in the POD helps but then I can't change model pickups within that patch. of course allowing a POD IA to send a model change to JTV would solve all of that as well.

I have a 3 pickup epi firebird that can get "stratty". I also have an epi riviera with 3 p90s and that also can get "stratty". Obviously both sound a bit fatter etc, but combining those 2 0r 4 positions with a modeled strat would be cool.

I saw a clip on youtube of a guy that had prails in an HSH strat with quarter pounder in the middle, I'd prefer something less hot than a quarter pounder, and if at all possible "cooler" of "whackier" looking.

Somehow I think a double bound in pearloid, purple flame top and back explorer would look whacky with 2 pearloid duncan custom shop p rails and a chrome mini hum in the middle. . . . .. or a chrome p90. . .or pearloid ASAT. . .. or a pearloid strat middle pickup. Filtertron may look whacky but I am pretty sure would sound just as whacky. . .

Has anyone been messing with the JTV wiring at all?