ever heard of..

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Bender

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I'm thinking of rewiring my pups and instead of conventional wiring where the mid and neck are used together I'm thinking of using the bridge and neck together on a 5 way switch.
anyone ever tried this or heard of it?
Also, any ideas on what pups to use , playin anything from blues to Floyd.
 
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I have a setup with a push-pull pot that turns on the bridge pickup. That will give you the bridge and neck together.

I have this setup with hot rails in the bridge and cool rails in the middle and neck positions. It gives me 9 different HB sounds.
 
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Bender said:
I'm thinking of rewiring my pups and instead of conventional wiring where the mid and neck are used together I'm thinking of using the bridge and neck together on a 5 way switch.
anyone ever tried this or heard of it?
Also, any ideas on what pups to use , playin anything from blues to Floyd.
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IMO, the bridge and neck together in a strat is one the best tones a strat can get! I usually wire either the bridge or the neck pickup to a mini toggle or to a push pull so, whenever I engage that switch, it activates that pickup. I gives you 7 total positions. It gives you the standard 5 plus, you can play all 3 at the same time or, the neck and bridge together. If you like Floyd, you will probably really like the neck and bridge together.
 
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I use the Schaller "E" Megaswitch that Stewmac sells, replaces the
middle only position (which I don't use) with bridge and neck.
If you dont want to buy a new switch, just swap the mid and neck
wires on the switch, or easier still, swap the mid and neck pickups
on the scratchplate if the leads are long enough.
As theodie suggests, a push pull pot gives you much greater
versatility with bridge+neck and all three on plus the normal 5 positions.
I'd also recommend moving the mid tone control to the bridge.
Cheers, Will.
 
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Its a fairly common trick to just reverse the neck and middle hot wires on the 5-way. That makes the back three positions; bridge, B & N, neck. And then the front two positions gives you back; neck and middle, and middle.

Cool, simple mod. Remember, reverse the wires . . . not the pups.
 
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I LOVE N+B on a Strat, it's kinda like a Strat meets Tele tone, real smooth for cleans or cleanish rhythm, I also like to turn all three on for some more bite...
 
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thanks to all ,, I'll def get it a try .. I 've already got a push-pull ( little 59 in bridge ) so should be quite simple
thanks again
 
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