Single coils in humbucking position

Hi there again,

I have a Squier Strat with the stock single coils and I want to mess with the electronics a bit.

Would it be possible to like,

use two single coils, both in the bridge cavity in humbucking position ?

Thanks for the hit !

Providing the single coils are oppositely wound.

rw/rp or a neck and a bridge from a two pup guitar or a bridge and middle from a strat,wire the two positive leads together and they will cancel hum,it wont sound 100% humbucker as it will retain single coil tone but it will sound good nonetheless.

Thanks guys !

So, I leave the one in the bridge alone and match it with say, the one from the neck but I flip this one upside down ?

Flipin it wont do a thing,its the way its wound that matters.

Just put the middle pup with the bridge pup and wire the middle pup to the same spot the bridge pup is and it will be permanently canceling hum.

If you put the bridge and neck together it wouldn't cancel hum cause theyre wound the same direction.Unless it were a mustang or any 2 pup guitar,then it would as it only has 2 pups to begin with.

Thanks !

OK, here they are :

I see two conductor wires (I unwrapped one after I tool the pic). One is white and the other is plain, with no cover. Which of both should I treat as hot/cold ?

And also,

How should I position them ? [i feel stupid but I can't tell where is the top and the bottom]

Thanks:cool:

Plain is ground.

This is how I have my Squier Strat configured:

I have a single-coil sized humbucker in the bridge position.

I have the standard Squier single-coils in the neck and middle position. The middle is a reverse wound/reverse magnetic polarity (RW/RP) single-coil.

These two pickups are wired together in series (I could have wired them in parallel, which would have produced the standard Strat "in-between" sound, but I was going for more of a Les Paul type sound) and as such have become a single humbucking pickup, with it's coils set wide apart. (although some people believe that a Strat's signature "in-between" sounds come from some "out-of'phase" relationship between the pickups, I contend that it has to do with the distance between the pickups in the classic #2 & #4 pickup-selector positions. Of course I also contend that I be made Philosopher-King of the world, so take that for what it's worth).

For a pickup selector switch, I use a Strat 3-way blade switch.

So basically, I have a two humbucker Strat, with a 3-way switch.

I intend to eventually install a Tele 4-way switch, which is designed to allow two pickups to be selected in a parallel, and series connection.

Another easy wiring mode would be to turn the standard three single coil Strat into a two humbucking pickup guitar, with a two position (toggle, push-button, rocker, whatever type) switch.

You would just wire it so that in one position, the switch has the middle/bridge single-coil pickups in series, and when the switch is in the opposite position the middle/neck pickups are wired in series.

Granted, the guitar is no longer a "real" Strat, but it has become a simply controlled, unique sounding (because of the coil seperation distance) humbucking guitar.This might be a easy/cheap mod for all those beginners who have received a Strat as a first electric, but really wanted something with a "Bigger" sound.

Don't even get me started on how a standard 5-way Strat switch can be used with two single-coil and two humbucking pickups--life is too short.

the wonderful world of diy electronics... thanks for sharing your knowledge with us !