Hey All, well I've embarked on may latest guitar project, (RG you'll relate to this
), I have a $200 AUD ish Squier strat that I bought for a friends son, deal was if he got keen, buy it from me, long story short, he didn't an now I have it. So it's a Chinese Fender Squier bullet, black with white scratch plate and rosewood FB. So I set it up and used it at rehearsal, mmmm not bad, nice to play but no sustain and PUs are very ordinary (no surprise). I'll temper this with ( I always wanted a black with white SP strat as that's what Blackmore had way back then when I was 13.... so I'm keen...)
Move forward.. It's now got a nice set of Gotoh black chrome MHds, and a Wilkingson trem (lets get some sustain...) and a graphtech nut, and now I'm doing the electronics, SD hot rails for the bridge, SD lil 59 for the neck, switchcaft OP jack, 2 x push pull pots for series/parallel switching of the SDs'.
So now I'm working out the wirering... I want the middle (of 5 poss switch) to be neck and bridge (maybe out of phase, haven't decided), they will each have series/parallel switching from their pots and each have their respective vol control, and either extreme bridge or neck PU. So now the issue is how to work in the middle SC PU so I can combine it with Bridge or Neck.
Of note the 5 way switch is (well new to me) a1 a2 a3 aout / bout b1 b2 b3 (note a1 = b1 but separate out etc) . So my idea (feedback welcome/encouraged BTW) is to have both neck and bridge PUs with individual volume control (series parallel push pull) and wire it such that a1 (bridge PU +) connect to a1 and also b2 and the Neck PU connect to a3 and also b2 then connect both to to a2 (b2 > a2) thus combine the bridge and neck PUs), then connect middle PU (which is stock) to b1 and b3 (which goes to a2) so the in between settings give B + Middle and Middle + neck;; but middle switch selection is b + n