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Re: Strat Pickup Wiring Question

8/11/1999 4:21 AM
Mark Hammer	Re: Strat Pickup Wiring Question Nice trick. Best used, however, when all three pickups possess identical qualities. Where a given guitar has different pickups in each position, moving pickups is precluded. That being said, there is no rule that says that the pickup selector switch HAS to work like a bass-through-to-treble control. Admittedly, it makes more intuitive sense to a player in midstream if the tone gets crisper as you move the switch further to the rear, but I suppose one can get used to it; after all, Strat players got used to not having a neck+bridge combination!! A compromise between buying a new switch and doing the shifty polka as John describes would be to connect the bridge pickup to where the middle pickup normally goes on the switch, and the middle to where the brideg normally goes, leaving the front pickup wired in as per usual. This should give you Neck, Neck+Bridge, Bridge, Bridge+Middle, and Middle. The first three positions get you standard Tele switching, 4 gets you cluck, and 5 gets you middle; an acceptable arrangement.

8/11/1999 4:21 AM

Mark Hammer

Re: Strat Pickup Wiring Question

Nice trick. Best used, however, when all three pickups possess identical qualities. Where a given guitar has different pickups in each position, moving pickups is precluded.

That being said, there is no rule that says that the pickup selector switch HAS to work like a bass-through-to-treble control. Admittedly, it makes more intuitive sense to a player in midstream if the tone gets crisper as you move the switch further to the rear, but I suppose one can get used to it; after all, Strat players got used to not having a neck+bridge combination!!

A compromise between buying a new switch and doing the shifty polka as John describes would be to connect the bridge pickup to where the middle pickup normally goes on the switch, and the middle to where the brideg normally goes, leaving the front pickup wired in as per usual.

This should give you Neck, Neck+Bridge, Bridge, Bridge+Middle, and Middle. The first three positions get you standard Tele switching, 4 gets you cluck, and 5 gets you middle; an acceptable arrangement.

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Mark Hammer Well, I did this today to my nephew... -- 8/12/1999 3:21 AM