Strat Wiring Idea

[MattPete]

Re: Strat Wiring Idea

Neck        6.3
middle-pu   6.3
bridge      8.3

...and the mini-switch and selector switch combinations:

    parallel    bypass    series
N    3.16        6.24      6.24
N+B  2.31        3.59      3.59
B    3.62        8.34      8.34

I went through and calculated what the values would be in series, and the values are spot on.

[MattPete]

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OK, now this takes the cake!

This is something that can only happen with a Twangbanger. It turns out the TB has a copper plate on the bottom, and it's grounded to this plate. I also had copper foil on the back of the pickguard, and the pickupscrews (which screwed into the plate) contacted the copper foil, and made a ground!

The only way I figured this out was by disconnecting the pickup ground wires. The neck and middle no longer worked, but the bridge Twangbanger still did.

[ArtieToo]

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So Matt, where does that leave you now? Do you still have positions that don't work?
Or are you on the trail to figuring this out?

[Zerberus]

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Something tells me the Switchologist and his Patient are starting to get a bit wired

Hatīs off to A2, and good luck, you 2 are already WAAY over my head

[MattPete]

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Artie (and Zerb): it works perfect now! Sweet single coils in the middle position, quack in the up position, and ballsy-thick tone in the down (serial) position. Once again, thanks to Artie and his elegant wiring that was spot-on.

I think the strangest thing was that I had disconnected the grounds from the 3-way switch, but I was still getting readings for the bridge pickup (through the quick-connects I have in my pickguard)! That's what lead me to the ground going from the Twang-banger plate, through the screws, to the copper foil on the pickguard, and then to the grounded volume pot.

Now I just need to figure out of I want to keep one of my no-load 250k tone pots, or if I want to switch it for a 250k push-pull that will allow me to add the middle by itself. I'm still waiting on a non-RWRP APS2 (there was an order mix-up) for the neck. I have an SSL-1 pulled from the neck of my kramer 15 years ago in there now.

So...right now, I have:

SSL-1 (neck)
APS-2 (middle)
Twangbanger (bridge)

...in a swamp ash hardtail Warmoth strat.

[ArtieToo]

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Excellent . . . although, next time I'll try to make sure I don't have my switch drawing backwards.

[Kent S.]

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Excellent . . . although, next time I'll try to make sure I don't have my switch drawing backwards.

I hate it when that happens, but it does ...
Okay, to further confuse things ... err ... I mean help (yeah, right Kent ...)
Here is a layout that I have in a Fernandez Strat of mine, I actually think I like yours (the two of you that is) a bit better. Mine is a little more switch intensive, and requires two DPDT push/pull (or push/push pots [ one could be a SPDT switch]; uses a five way switch). This was originally done with humbucking stacked singles, and a control matrix similar to the G&L set-up.
{Also a DMZ shockwave preamp ... GOD I wish they still made those :::: sigh}
This differs from the one stated in a couple areas as follows:

Yours: Middle in series with the parallel connection of the bridge & neck,
Neck & bridge in parallel, neck & middle & bridge in parallel.
Mine: Middle alone, bridge & middle in series w/ neck in parallel,
neck & middle in series w/ bridge in parallel.
So it's kinda a cool option, depending on what the player wants, just put it out there for anyone that might be interested ...