HS Strat wiring help

[prismatic67]

Hi everyone, I am new here...

I am planning on wiring up my newly acquired Seth Lover trembucker (TB-55) in the bridge, along with a single coil in the neck. I am choosing to leave out the middle pickup since it hardly gets any use + gets in the way. I plan to have a 3-way switch, as well as another switch (DPDT on-on-on?) to go from series, to tapped, to parallel in the humbucker. Basically my question is, can anyone confirm this diagram I drew up before I go and wire it up? (may be a little hard to see the- the white wires are drawn in light grey and the bare wires/ground are darker grey) The basic signal path is: either pickup > (function switch for HB) > respective volume pot > selector switch > tone circuit > output jack.

thanks in advance

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: HS Strat wiring help

Welcome to the forum.

The circuit that you have drawn will work.

The only areas for doubt are the four conductor + shield cabling for the SH-55 humbucker and the magnetic polarity relationship between the two pickups. The latter would be problematic if you were hoping for noise-cancellation when the single coil is combined with the split coil of the humbucker.

 

[prismatic67]

Re: HS Strat wiring help

Hey.

The Seth Lover I have is a custom floor model that has a 4-conductor, shielded cable. It is also spaced as a trembucker, to match up with my strat. I plan to split the screw-coil (south), closest to the bridge. In order to do that, I would need a RW/WP single-coil in the neck to have hum-cancelling? My hum is not bad at all, so a normal single-coil will function just fine?

Matt

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: HS Strat wiring help

Yes. Your circuit will function. Whether the sounds that it produces please your ears is entirely subjective. (Nice schematic diagram graphics, by the way.)