Here's my Highway 1 wiring diagram

MikeS

MikeS

Bengalsologist
I've had this operation for almost two weeks now so I thought I'd go ahead and share...

I worked on this for awhile, had a tough time with the superswitch doing everything I wanted, but in the end it was totally worth it. This uses a superswitch and a single push/pull for a completely stock look and because there's only one additional switch is very easy to navigate. On top of that it has a treble bleed mod and used the G&L PTB tone circuit (finally, a strat tone circuit that makes sense!). The pickups are Fender Texas Specials (the middle is RWRP). The positions are as follows:

Push/pull down
1. Neck
2. Neck + Middle (parallel)
3 Middle
4. Bridge + Middle (parallel)
5. Bridge

Push/pull up
1. Neck + Middle (series)
2. Neck
3. Neck + Bridge (parallel)
4. Bridge
5. Bridge + Middle (series)

Normally I'm adverse to duplicate positions, but in this case I feel the duplicates I designed in are very useful relative to the tones nearby. I made a couple concessions with these duplicate positions because while there were two more tones I would have liked to have had, they just were not possible without adding a switch. A fifth pole on the superswitch would have done it... oh well.

In the diagram below you'll notice the DPDT doesn't appear to be attached to a pot, I just draw them that way to keep the diagram clean. In case you wondered, it's on the treble control, which is the middle pot. A strat's volume pot can be in the way enough as it is... no sense in making it worse with a push pull. Anyway, enough blabbering, here's the pic:

HighwayOneWiring.jpg
 
Re: Here's my Highway 1 wiring diagram

Looks great, Mike. I do the same thing sometimes - duplicate positions if it makes for smooth transition between sounds. Nothing wrong with that at all.
 
Re: Here's my Highway 1 wiring diagram

One or two notes more...

Some day I'll play around with different pot values. I had originally wired up a 250K tone pot, but for reasons that escape me now had to pull the knob off and broke the push/pull (if you've ever used push-on knobs with push/pulls you know they are often on for life. I normally use set-screw knobs, but I wanted to retain a stock look). I had to use the 500K instead. I usually don't mind doing that because it affords me a higher ceiling (easier to turn a 500K down from "10" that turn up a 250K past "10"). I'm now wondering if that's something I should try with the volume knob because the two series positions are a little dark, which usually leads to me rolling down the bass. We'll see, as I know 500K pots could really brighten up the single coil positions.

As I said, I'll get to it some day, but not too soon. You can probably imagine how crowded a strat cavity can get with a 4-pole switch, a push/pull, three Sprague Orange Drops, and a resistor. Rewiring that guitar is not something I'll be looking forward to. ;)

Thanks for reading.
 
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