Not another N00b thread...

[jpjeffery]

Hello

I'm building a guitar. Nothing fancy, just using a strat body, and a rosewood strat neck.

I'm no electrician, but I can use a soldering iron.

Anyway, I bought Seymour Duncan pickups, specifically a SH-1N & B Humbucker (though the box just says "Vintage Blues Set") set and a STK-S7B Vintage Hot Stack Plus, to create a HHS configuration.

When I go to the SD Wiring Diagrams section and select the neck pickup as the Stack Plus, the wizard only offers Stack Plus for the middle and bridge pickups. Like I said, I'm no electrician, but this still seems puzzling...but also makes the paranoid man inside me worry that the Stack Plus can't work with any other pickup types!

So, is this an error in the wizard?

Regards to all of you.

Jeff

 

[Aceman]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

Relax man - ignore the Wizard. The Wizard is like Harry Potter. Gandalf lives in this realm. Someone will hook you up shortly.

 

[beaubrummels]

Not another N00b thread...

Try looking for a 3 Humbucker diagram, if you aren’t doing any tricky wiring. Or even just a 3 single coil diagram if you are just doing 3-pups and a blade switch. If you are doing any coil splits, you’ll have to combine various drawings yourself that have the elements you want, as HHS is not a common scheme. But technically, if you have a stack, you are doing HHH.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

The HHS configuration is just unusual thats all. Maybe with 2 'H's' selected the programming will only allow for another H in the neck slot........the library (and much of the rest of the site) has been plagued with issues since the re-design a few years back.

You could always select a stack as the middle pickup in the diagram.....and simply swap the soldering locations of the neck and middle wires in the cavity.

 

[jpjeffery]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

Try looking for a 3 Humbucker diagram, if you aren’t doing any tricky wiring. Or even just a 3 single coil diagram if you are just doing 3-pups and a blade switch. If you are doing any coil splits, you’ll have to combine various drawings yourself that have the elements you want, as HHS is not a common scheme. But technically, if you have a stack, you are doing HHH.

Dammit, I meant to say that I wasn't going to do anything funky, just a straight 5-way strat pickup selector (no tapping of any kind, or anything like that).
:banghead:

 

[jpjeffery]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

CORRECTION (Just in case it changes any of your answers...)

The config will be HSH, not HHS as I first stated.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

The Stack Plus will work just fine with the other 2. The Wizard is a little funky to say the least. Regular 5 way switch?

 

[Jack_TriPpEr]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

Dammit, I meant to say that I wasn't going to do anything funky, just a straight 5-way strat pickup selector (no tapping of any kind, or anything like that).
:banghead:

CORRECTION (Just in case it changes any of your answers...)

The config will be HSH, not HHS as I first stated.

In that case (i.e. you don't want any coilsplitting in Positions 2 and 4, and you want to use a standard 5 way switch), then you can just use a diagram for 3 noiseless/stack pickups w a 5 way blade switch. Cuz functionally that is the same as what you plan to do.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Not another N00b thread...

Since you're not doing anything tricky, just use this diagram:

https://docs.google.com/gview?embed...ontent/uploads/2016/05/SCHSCHSCH_5W_1V_1T.pdf

Or this one:

https://docs.google.com/gview?embed...m/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HSH_5W_1V_1T.pdf

 

[jpjeffery]

Remember this thread?

Well, not that it matters, I'm still wracked with indecision born of ignorance and inexperience. Also I feel I must issue another correction because although one of the pickups I have LOOKS like a single coil, it's a stack plus so (unless I'm wrong) it behaves as if it's a humbucker.

So, while the guitar will look like a HSH config, it's functionally HHH (with 1 volume, 2 tone, and a 5-way switch. No push/pull pots).

Bearing that in mind, is this an appropriate wiring diagram? : https://www.seymourduncan.com/images/wiring-diagrams/3STKplus_5W_1V_2T.jpg

Thanks in advance

Yours in procrastination,
Jeff

 

[beaubrummels]

That one puts individual tone controls on neck and middle and no tone on the bridge. If that's what you want, that diagram would work. If all 3 are technically humbuckers, you might consider just having a master tone for all three pickups. Personally, I might consider this diagram instead: https://www.seymourduncan.com/images/wiring-diagrams/SCHSTKSCH_5W_1V_1T.jpg

 

[PFDarkside]

Are the 59s two conductor with a silver braided shield or 4 conductor (red/green/black/white/bare) with a black insulated cable?

Your setup will be easy and straightforward. Where do you want the tone controls to work? (T1 on neck and T2 on middle & bridge would seem appropriate)

 

[jpjeffery]

That one puts individual tone controls on neck and middle and no tone on the bridge. If that's what you want, that diagram would work. If all 3 are technically humbuckers, you might consider just having a master tone for all three pickups. Personally, I might consider this diagram instead: https://www.seymourduncan.com/images...H_5W_1V_1T.jpg

I'm going for having the 5-way switch select the pickups in the same way as a SSS Stratocaster. Would that be the same wiring (as for a SSS Stratocaster)?

 

[jpjeffery]

Are the 59s two conductor with a silver braided shield or 4 conductor (red/green/black/white/bare) with a black insulated cable?

Braided (which I'm finding really annoying to work with!)

Your setup will be easy and straightforward. Where do you want the tone controls to work? (T1 on neck and T2 on middle & bridge would seem appropriate)

Like a SSS Strat 5-way.