Brian May-inspired wiring diagram

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BeatTheBastard

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Hello everyone. I´ve been recently building a pinecaster, not because I need one but I´ve wanted to try out building a guitar. Nothing fancy, just a pinecaster with string through hardtail bridge and maple neck. It´s been more likely to gain some experience and not build a good, useable uitar, but I strung it up and it played perfectly with little adjusting to intonation and saddle heights. I took it to parts to route electronic cavities. And what could be a better opportunity to try out some weird wiring stuff and so on?

I´m planning for an HSS setup, and came up with this. It´s kinda Brian May wiring without in/out phase switches and tone control, so it allowes pickups in series and all pickup combinations which normally can´t come out of a normal strat. I´m still not sure about the wiring, I made this quickly via Paint so can someone say is it even close to correct?

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And about the switches, didn´t May use DPDT switches or am I wrong?

I thank greatly those who can help a little with this. Cheers!
 
Re: Brian May-inspired wiring diagram

This is supposedly the Greg Fryer/Mark Reynolds diagram of Brian's guitar, though on my Red Special, the on/off are at the bottom and the phase switches are nearer to the pickups.

Edit: I take it back, on-offs are nearer the pickups. Haven't pulled it out in a while.

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Re: Brian May-inspired wiring diagram

BeatTheBastard said:
I thank greatly those who can help a little with this. Cheers!
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Your diagram is fine. You just can't do pickups in parallel, which is the "classic" Strat "notch" tone. But, you'll have new tones instead. Try it.
 
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