A tale of three Strats

[JB_From_Hell]

After re-wiring my G&L Legacy Tribute today, I spent a few hours bouncing around between my three Strats. It's interesting how different three 25.5" guitars with bolt on necks and vintage style bridges can feel. The Peavey Predator is strung 11-52, has really low frets, maple board, and feels fairly stiff. The next time it gets restrung, I'm going lighter. The Fender has 10-46, medium jumbo frets, rosewood board, and I can bend strings completely around the neck. The G&L has 11-50, medium jumbo, maple, and it's almost as slinky as the Fender.

All three have medium high action and just a little relief. I've been playing a lot of slide lately, so all three have the bridges decked to facilitate drop D tuning. The Strat has Texas Special pickups, the G&L has the stock USA pickups (which are excellent), and the Peavey has stock middle and neck, and an old MIJ Tele bridge pickup. All three have master volume, neck tone, no middle tone, bridge tone.

Thanks for listening to me ramble. I've been off work all week, waiting on my stupid Tele to show up in the mail, working on the house, eating a bunch of junk, and not drinking. Getting a little stir crazy

 

[Chistopher]

Re: A tale of three Strats

You've never felt the need to experiment with different wirings on any of your Strats? I've got some good ones, ranging from totally radical to almost entirely non-invasive, if you'd like to hear.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: A tale of three Strats

You've never felt the need to experiment with different wirings on any of your Strats? I've got some good ones, ranging from totally radical to almost entirely non-invasive, if you'd like to hear.

Way back when, the Predator had a mini-switch for neck/bridge or all 3. The G&L came to me with a Superswitch and I think neck & bridge in position 4. After 20 years of modding guitars, I've realized standard Strat wiring with the 2nd tone moved to the bridge is my favorite. I'm semi-curious about series 2 & 4, but I'd probably end up going back to normal and just playing a guitar with humbuckers.

Instead of non-standard pickup settings, I've gotten way more into adjusting the volume and tone knobs.

I forgot to mention the Fender has a TBX tone on the neck pickup. I used to leave it on 10, but now I like dialing in a sound with it on 5 (in the detent "250k" position), and opening it up to get a more cutting tone. The bridge has a standard 250k that lives around 5 or 6.