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drneilt
PostPosted: Sat 20 Jan 2018 01:07 PM 
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I have a CS-350 (Serial No. A812138) with only a single mini toggle switch.

I'm reading on here and elsewhere that coil tapping is controlled via center detents on the tone controls.

Anyone willing to give a dummies' guide to how that works? Is it e.g. 0-5 single coil tone variation; 5-10 humbucker tone variation or similar?
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G'day there!! I don't know about the Cardinals as I've never even seen one but all of my Matsumoku guitars with coil cut are either push/pull pots or mini switches!
Hopefully someone who does know will be along directly!!
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Welcome.
I know lots of guitars use push/pull pots but I'm not familiar with coil tap via center detent. You read that here?
I have a few CS models but none with the single switch. I know some came that way but I believe they were missing the phase option, hence the one switch for coil cut.

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Thanks for the responses so far.

I saw this comment in the gallery: "Cardinal CS-2XX (Possibly CS-250 submodel?)
Same overall specs as the CS-250 but only one mini (phase) and coil cut is accomplished through center detent tone pots. Can you identify it?": http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/cs/unk/pics.html

And this comment is in an old thread http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=224

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I have seen two Cardinals, that otherwise would be the same as the CS-350 but had only the phase wired to the mini. The tone controls on the single mini version were center detent and acted as variable coil cut as well by running the frontside of the second coil to ground.

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I had what would have been a CS-350 save for it had only the phase, and like above, the coil cut was wired to the tone pots.


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I also spotted this (though no mention of detent - which my CS-350 seems to have)

CS-350:
“an alternate stock version had single mini phase and coil cut on the tone knobs” http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/cs/cs.html
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Hmm... so yours does have a detent? That's interesting.
On both tone knobs?

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Yes, on both knobs. I don't plug the guitar in to anything very often (it sounds great acoustically and we have a baby in the house) and I assumed the centre points were just that and nothing more. I will plug it in tomorrow and have a play around.
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Think I found the answer, mystery solved!

Wutz wrote:
My CS-400 has the same electronic layout as your CS-350...
If you put the tone control into center position, you have both coils on and no cut of the high frequency... turn the tone control into one direction and you get a high frequency cut... turn it into the other direction and it fades out one of the coils of the humbucker.

http://www.matsumoku.org/ggboard/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=898

(Thanks Wutz)
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Outstanding!

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From the 1981 Japanese Catalogue - "T.T.S. Turn to Single" feature:

http://i65.tinypic.com/219qsnp.png
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