is this combination doable for my strat?

[Travis Cassidy]

I have a 2003 USA highway one strat with 3 single coil pickups and a 5-way switch with 2 tone knobs and 1 volume knob. what i am wanting to do is place a vintage semour duncan hot stack plus (stk-s7) in the neck, cool rails (scr-1) in the middle and a hot stack plus (stk-s9b) in the bridge position. is this combination possible without major problems? any help would be great, thanks.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: is this combination doable for my strat?

Welcome to the forum.

Your pickup choices will work fine with the stock control wiring harness. The one thing that I cannot remember is whether the H1 circuit connects the lower tone control pot to the centre pickup, the bridge pickup or both. (The latter requires a short jumper connection between two adjacent terminals on the same pole of the CRL five-way selector switch. If this needs too be added to your guitar circuit, do it whilst the original pickups are disconnected but before the new ones go in.)

For your new pickups, a .022uF capacitor might be more appropriate than the stock .047. If your H1 Strat has the so-called Greasebucket tone control, leave it as it stands.

 

[Travis Cassidy]

Re: is this combination doable for my strat?

Welcome to the forum.

Your pickup choices will work fine with the stock control wiring harness. The one thing that I cannot remember is whether the H1 circuit connects the lower tone control pot to the centre pickup, the bridge pickup or both. (The latter requires a short jumper connection between two adjacent terminals on the same pole of the CRL five-way selector switch. If this needs too be added to your guitar circuit, do it whilst the original pickups are disconnected but before the new ones go in.)

For your new pickups, a .022uF capacitor might be more appropriate than the stock .047. If your H1 Strat has the so-called Greasebucket tone control, leave it as it stands.

thanks, ive never had the inside of a guitar apart so i have no idea as to what i need. i work with electricity every day and i am handy with a solder gun but as with anything new i am a little apprehensive when it comes to this but at the same time i am excited to for a lack of better words (customise) my guitar. ive been in the market for a new guitar with a little more "meat" than my strat has but after looking at what i can do with my strat using seymour duncan pickups i think i want to upgrade it. i am wanting to put a new pick guard on also. does anyone build loaded pick guards with your choice of pickups? it would be nice to just buy one already built to my specs. ONE IMPORTANT KEY ELEMENT HERE IS THAT I AM LEFT HANDED AND SO IS MY STRAT LOL> does this make a difference in pickups? especially the ones i want to use?