Strat wiring

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

I've been asked to do a Strat with tone for the neck, tone for the bridge and no tone for the middle.

 

Know ye of such a scheme?

 

I've never come across one

[mrbrown49]

I think you just have to move the wire that goes to the second tone pot down one lug on the switch.

[badpenguin]

Depends on the switch. use a multi meter to see which lug is active in the bridge pickup setting, then wire the tone pot there, instead of the mid.

[onelife]

You could simply connect the tone pots to the same lugs of the switch as their respective pickups.

 

 

I use 4P5T pickup selector switches in my strats which allows any possible configuration. I use one tone control for the two outside positions of the switch (1,5) and the other tone control for the there middle positions (2,3,4).

 

One of my strats is setup to have all three pickups on in the centre position.

 

 

 

[Grant Harding]

That's really cool!

[MarvelUndies]

Everyone seems to have the right idea here and definitely knows more about this than I do, but my suggestion would be to go with a master tone control. I did consider looking at Les Paul wiring, but the switch would be no good for a Strat and I wouldn't know how to substitute it.

 

Anyway, that's just my two cents. For a friend/customer, I would listen to everyone else. I wouldn't want to ruin the aesthetic nor defy the customer's specifications

[badpenguin]

The issue is, it isn't his guitar. I would do the same, and add a switch that allows neck and bridge, and all three on, using the spare hole.

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

For myself and most people I do the master volume, master tone and no load blend pot scheme, but this guts a giggling muso with this particular request

[garthman]

I've never seen the point in having one of the PUs without a tone control. What do you gain?

 

When I owned a strat I wired it so the second tone knob worked for the middle and the bridge (just soldered a small piece of wire to connect the switch lugs).

 

PS. I sold the strat and bought a Yamaha Pacifica 112 instead

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

I wire all my Strats with master tone, master volume and blend pot.

 

Having said that I'd like to try this to see what it sound like, I've always found a middle position with single coils to have very pleasant acoustic properties

[Ancient Mariner]

Did you wire it in the end, and did you just move the tone control wire from middle to bridge? I did try that once (actually tone on bridge & middle, neck no tone) but now I always do like - master tone + blend pot.

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

No, when I spoke to his Dad whose guitar it was, he said leave it as standard, I'm not entirely sure everybody is as critical as we are about Leo's original controls😐

[Ancient Mariner]

I could never really use a strat bridge PU without rolling some of the bite out, but they obviously work for some people (and there are 4 other settings that one can use).