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  • Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

    Greetings,

    New user from Pompano Beach Florida here. Hope you all are staying safe and sane.

    So I’m rewiring my strat and I need a little help. This is my first attempt at wiring. I have Humbuckers for neck and bridge, a 5-way switch, CTS 500K push/pull pots, one for tone and one for volume. I want to use the push/pull pots to coil split the neck pickup.

    When I generate a diagram on the site, there is no option for push pull pots, any recommendations on how I would wire everything up?

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    Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

    Welcome to the forum!

    If you are using push pulls to split the pickups, what do you want the 5 way switch to do? A regular 5 way is fairly limited to what you can do with 2 humbuckers, and it might be easier (and make more sense) to just use a 3 way switch and use the push pulls to split the pickups.
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    • #3
      Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

      So I guess I have a decision to make, use the 5 way switch or the push pull pots, or buy a 3 way switch...I'd like to have it wired like this, and I guess I won't use the push pull pots.
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      • #4
        Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

        i think you need a super switch to do that, but its totally doable

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        • #5
          Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

          Originally posted by jeremy View Post
          i think you need a super switch to do that, but its totally doable
          What’s the closest I can get to that with what I’ve got on hand, can I at least split the neck pickup? What are my options with just a five way switch?

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          • #6
            Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

            I'm no whiz without diagrams myself, but a regular 5 way is not very flexible and wouldn't do what you have in the chart. If you have 3 hot wires (as in a strat), say A, B, C then your 5 way choices are always:
            1: A
            2: A+B
            3: B
            4: B+C
            5: C

            Better to either get a super-switch which has very flexible options of what to attach where or stick with a 3 way + pots.
            A super switch has 4 banks to hook wires up to for separate switching.

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            • #7
              Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

              you could do something like

              1-ab
              2-b
              3-bc
              4-c
              5-cd

              by auto splitting in the notch positions using the other side of the switch

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              • #8
                Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                Thanks for the info guitaroholic,

                Jeremy- do you know what the result would be with this wiring?
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                • #9
                  Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                  looks like the below, but i could totally be wrong. kinda a weird diagram but i can confirm when i get home if no one else does before that

                  full bridge
                  both full
                  full neck
                  both split
                  bridge split

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                  • #10
                    Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                    Things open up a bit if you get a super switch. I did a super switch wiring, which eliminates the need for push/pulls, but requires you to flip a magnet. It gets pretty close to what you want.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                      Thanks for the link man. I am totally down with your wiring, I'm looking into some 5-way super switches, now my only concern is flipping a magnet. It seems that every time I'm close, some else pops up. I did a quick lookup of what that entails and it doesn't seem like something that I want to tackle. Is that absolutely necessary?

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                      • #12
                        Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                        are your buckers covered? if not, flipping the magnet is pretty simple

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                        • #13
                          Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                          Not sure, they're wrapped in some kind of electrical tape, does this help?
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                          • #14
                            Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                            They aren't covered. Basically, the process is:

                            Slowly un-tape (it doesn't all need to come off)
                            Loosen the screws on the bottom
                            Locate the magnet (it might have wax on it, so you might have to scrape that off)
                            Push out the magnet with a screwdriver from the short edge through the other short edge
                            Flip it like a pancake
                            Re-assemble

                            It has been awhile since I did mine, but I am sure someone will come in and correct me if I am wrong or left any steps out.
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                            • #15
                              Re: Need Help Wiring Strat w/ Humbuckers

                              Do I flip the magnets on both bridge and neck pickups?

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