HB-1 coil-splitting question

[Steve Messenger]

Do I remember correctly that '70s (or later) Guilds with HB-1 pickups were able to be coil-split ... is this difficult to do? I'm thinking about having a guitar built, and I would like it to have an HB-1, but I would love the ability to move between humbucker and single coil sound ... Thanks

 

[Midnight Toker]

Guild Full-Sized HB1 and SD1 Pickup Variations | GAD's Ramblings

One of the questions I see on the guitar forums quite a bit is, “What kind of pickups does this Guild guitar have?” Since I’ve posted in many of these threads, I seem to get a lot of emails with the same question. I thought that I might write up a quick summary of the …

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Guild Pickup Wiring | GAD's Ramblings

I’ve owned many Guild guitars, and due to the fact that I have a soldering iron and I’m not afraid to use it, I’ve learned a fair bit about various Guild pickups and their wiring. Since there seems to be little information on the Internet about this topic, I decided to write up what I …

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[Guildedagain]

I had some coil splitting on a '76 Starfire, fairly underwhelming tone split, but it will thin it out.

 

[krysh]

I had both pickups done twice by Hans and for my taste only the neck pickup is worth it, sounds really good as a single coil

 

[GAD]

Do I remember correctly that '70s (or later) Guilds with HB-1 pickups were able to be coil-split ... is this difficult to do? I'm thinking about having a guitar built, and I would like it to have an HB-1, but I would love the ability to move between humbucker and single coil sound ... Thanks

They cannot be coil split from the factory. The bridge pickup has three terminals so its phase can be inverted.