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> "Coil Tap - traditionally a way of dividing the coils of a humbucker
> to produce a single coil sound, however, coil tapping can be true coil
> tapping whereby the windings of a coil are interrupted during winding
> and a lead attached before the windings are then finished thus in
> effect on one bobbin you would have two coils, one wound on top of the
> other. These two coils will not be humbucking as they will be be in
> the same magnetic field. Coil tapping can also be used for making
> pickups out of phase, and for series/ parallel switching."
I bought a humbucker with 4 leads instead of 2. When I flip a switch (or
pull up on my push/pull volume pot), I send one of the coils to ground. And
voila, the humbucker (2 coils) now becomes a single coil. When the switch is
closed, you have your standard 2 coil humbucker. That, to me, is coil
tapping.
I realize that you can tap the pickup at arbitary points, but when you see a
guitar advertised as having a coil tap, they are most likely talking about
turning a humbucker into a single coil with some kind of switch.
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