Hi everyone, great forum and thanks for having me!
I’m new to guitar, but work in fabrication and love modding things. Lately, modifying and building guitars has become my new passion.
I’ve started making a secondary loaded pick guard for my ‘04 American HH Strat which will eventually go into a scratch build. I really want to replicate as many of the wiring configurations as possible from the original Fender setup, but in this model the pickups didn’t have consistent wiring and so I am finding it hard to learn much from their service manual.
What I’ve deduced so far is that fender oriented the humbuckers from neck down as SNSN whereas the hot rod humbucker sets (jb/jazz) default orientation with logos aligned is NSSN. Is there any relevance to running them in different orientations, or does it not really matter?
Fender have the wiring colours and screw/slug polarity flipped on the neck pickup compared with the bridge pickup. The bridge pickup following Fender colour code and the neck pickup definitely not following it, possibly opposite.
I have a full spare set of parts including a 500k S1 switch and five way super switch, but also bought a push pull volume pot in case the S1 switch was beyond what I could work out myself or get help to understand.
I’ve attached the switching scheme and wiring diagram from Fender below and would really appreciate any suggestions, help with matching the wiring scheme using the Seymour Duncan pickups or helpful suggestions for a newer player to look into to improve my knowledge.
I love the sound of the guitar with the fender pickups and would really like to replicate the setup with other pickups so I can compare and contrast.
Thanks in advance!
Control function diagram from: https://support.fender.com/en-us/kno...ticle/KA-01276
Wiring diagram from: https://support.fender.com/en-us/kno...ticle/KA-01279

I’m new to guitar, but work in fabrication and love modding things. Lately, modifying and building guitars has become my new passion.
I’ve started making a secondary loaded pick guard for my ‘04 American HH Strat which will eventually go into a scratch build. I really want to replicate as many of the wiring configurations as possible from the original Fender setup, but in this model the pickups didn’t have consistent wiring and so I am finding it hard to learn much from their service manual.
What I’ve deduced so far is that fender oriented the humbuckers from neck down as SNSN whereas the hot rod humbucker sets (jb/jazz) default orientation with logos aligned is NSSN. Is there any relevance to running them in different orientations, or does it not really matter?
Fender have the wiring colours and screw/slug polarity flipped on the neck pickup compared with the bridge pickup. The bridge pickup following Fender colour code and the neck pickup definitely not following it, possibly opposite.
I have a full spare set of parts including a 500k S1 switch and five way super switch, but also bought a push pull volume pot in case the S1 switch was beyond what I could work out myself or get help to understand.
I’ve attached the switching scheme and wiring diagram from Fender below and would really appreciate any suggestions, help with matching the wiring scheme using the Seymour Duncan pickups or helpful suggestions for a newer player to look into to improve my knowledge.
I love the sound of the guitar with the fender pickups and would really like to replicate the setup with other pickups so I can compare and contrast.
Thanks in advance!
Control function diagram from: https://support.fender.com/en-us/kno...ticle/KA-01276
Wiring diagram from: https://support.fender.com/en-us/kno...ticle/KA-01279
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