New pickguard for my 2012 American std strat

[semi-hollowbody2018]

Was thinking about a SD jb in the bridge
and 2 single coil sized duckbuckers in mid and neck
500k pots

Any opinions tips on this combination

 

[jeremy]

the jb will greatly over power the ducks, which can be fine if you like having a big output difference. i much prefer the ducks with 250k pots. are you doing a typical v,t,t setup?

 

[semi-hollowbody2018]

the jb will greatly over power the ducks, which can be fine if you like having a big output difference. i much prefer the ducks with 250k pots. are you doing a typical v,t,t setup?

I ordered enough pots caps etc to do a VTTT...if I can fit another pot in the body cavity i was gonna drill a hole in the pickguard I ordered from stewy
otherwise I will do the VTT...put the bridge on one t and the mid/neck on the other...but preferably Id have 3 separate tone pots

 

[semi-hollowbody2018]

I ordered an HSS pickguard assuming the MIA strat was routed for a bridge humbucker
will look before I order the bridge pup or start wiring the PG lol...

 

[jeremy]

id assume that it is routed hss or even hsh

 

[semi-hollowbody2018]

id assume that it is routed hss or even hsh

yup...too recent for the swimming pool rout...

 

[Mincer]

You can also do a JB Jr, but I'd still want more powerful singles in the neck and bridge. Figure out what is more important...volume balance or Stratty tone. Sometimes it is hard to get both.

 

[alex1fly]

I ordered enough pots caps etc to do a VTTT...if I can fit another pot in the body cavity i was gonna drill a hole in the pickguard I ordered from stewy
otherwise I will do the VTT...put the bridge on one t and the mid/neck on the other...but preferably Id have 3 separate tone pots

This sounds like a nightmare to me. Strat pickguards are fussy enough with three knobs. Don't know how many times I've messed things up when putting the Strat guard back in... made things touch, pulled a wire off, bent a cap, or some other kind of madness.

You can definitely get away with VTT.

For the JB though, I have some singles on the way for my Strat build and am considering putting a JB in the bridge. The JB will be wired to a split and the volume balance will be based on the split tone. Just a thought.

 

[Benjy_26]

That's another way you can take things:. Have the split humbucker be the standard sound at the bridge. I have a Washburn set up so that the split, bridge position Dimebucker is the standard sound on the five way switch and I use a push/pull pot to bring the pickup into series humbucker operation and use it as a sort of boost.

 

[gsammo79]

That's another way you can take things:. Have the split humbucker be the standard sound at the bridge. I have a Washburn set up so that the split, bridge position Dimebucker is the standard sound on the five way switch and I use a push/pull pot to bring the pickup into series humbucker operation and use it as a sort of boost.

I like this idea. I dont see this strategy mentioned much

 

[Benjy_26]

I like this idea. I dont see this strategy mentioned much

Thanks. It gives you all the basic HSS sounds, but it prioritizes them differently. I thought of doing this after hearing how shockingly good the Dimebucker is when played clean AND split. It's almost like a Tele bridge sound.

 

[semi-hollowbody2018]

Yeah got my pickguard and parts today and there is no way I'm getting a 4th pot

So master volume
Bridge tone
Mid and neck tone

Looking at classic 59 in bridge and little 59s in mid and neck
More balanced output

 

[Clint 55]

I really like that set up.

 

[Mincer]

Yeah got my pickguard and parts today and there is no way I'm getting a 4th pot

So master volume
Bridge tone
Mid and neck tone

Looking at classic 59 in bridge and little 59s in mid and neck
More balanced output

It will certainly be more balanced if not very Stratty, but I am guessing that's what you are going for. I am a fan of the Little 59.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Yeah got my pickguard and parts today and there is no way I'm getting a 4th pot

So master volume
Bridge tone
Mid and neck tone

Looking at classic 59 in bridge and little 59s in mid and neck
More balanced output

You could have three tone controls using a dual-concentric pot in the third spot.
If the routs are deep enough for push-pulls, they'd be deep enough for that.

 

[semi-hollowbody2018]

You could have three tone controls using a dual-concentric pot in the third spot.
If the routs are deep enough for push-pulls, they'd be deep enough for that.

Omg
I didnt know these existed
seriously considering ordering 3 and knobs for them
1 per pickup
tone on top volume on bottom

This will not be a strat anymore lol

 

[Chistopher]

Consider before you do that, if each pickup has its own volume and tone, the 2 and 4 positions will be seeing 4 pots, which will sound hella dark, so you'd want to use 500k pots. Also, your controls will be extremely interactive, no matter how you slice it. You'd need to put a treble bleed on every volume control if you didn't want the whole thing to turn into a muddy mess. Plus you're volume controls would be coupled, so turning off the middle pickup for example would turn also mute the 2 and 4 positions.

Also consider, how often do you feel that you need to change the volume of one pickup relative to the others? This wiring configuration is a whole lot of trouble and you get no more useful sounds than a normal strat has.

 

[alex1fly]

Omg
I didnt know these existed
seriously considering ordering 3 and knobs for them
1 per pickup
tone on top volume on bottom

This will not be a strat anymore lol

I like the idea of 3 Lil 59s. Still wanna get crazy? Do V/T/T but make each one a push/pull so you can split each pickup independently. IMO that would be way more useful than have a third tone control, and would still satisfy some of that urge to do a custom wiring job.

I have one humbucker guitar wired with splits, and it's like having two guitars in one. Insanely cool - and that's with a single switch to split both HBs at the same time. If you could split three humbuckers independently, that's a ton of different sounds on tap!

 

[Mincer]

Keep in mind that crazy schemes also make it harder to get from one sound to another, in that it might take 2 or 3 moves to get to the sound. As options are added, I always feel the
useful options are only a small percentage of the whole of all the options.

 

[Aceman]

You might like the JB with 250's.

Can't speak to output of JB vs BD's. That said - tap the JB!