Originally posted by the foolIf your pups only have two wires, you can't coil-tap them either!
... My luthier did advised me about adding a series/parallel switch or an out of phase switch but I'm worried about having to mess with the pickup. You see, the classic 57 and 57 plus only has 2 braided wires instead of four so (I might be wrong about this one but)I'm guessing you have to mess up with the pickups...
A coil tap switch simply shorts out one of the two coils in a humbucker. That's why they become noisy - you lose the hum-cancelling effect of the two coil design. To coil tap a humbucker, you need to bring a wire to the switch from the connetion between the pup coils. On a 2-wire pup, that means opening it up to add another wire. A 4-wire 'bucker simply gives you access to both ends of each coil so that you can hook 'em up any way you want to.