Re: P-Rails SHPR-1 Fat Strat how to wire
:newbie: I cannot find anywhere on the web how to connect my new SHPR-1 to my Fat strat which has 2 tones and all the rest as above, namely:
- 1 volume
- a 5-way selector
- 2 single coils (middle + neck)
- two push/pull pots
with two tone pots, it is complicated :banghead: to understand which wire goes where... it's very confusing really.
I would really appreciate your help :help:
Thank you
Eric
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Eric,
Welcome aboard! The image and link (image is a link, if you didn't catch that) above refer to the Seymour Duncan Triple Shot ring. In my opinion, it is the best possible companion for a P-Rails pickup. I was / am in a similar situation as you, wondering how to make the wiring work for my P-Rails with push-pulls and mini-toggles, but after I found the Triple Shot ring, all of that seemed unnecessary. What it does is
allows you to access series, parallel and split wirings with a standard humbucker. And it’s easy to install. Just solder your pickup leads to a small color-coded circuit board. That’s it. Push the two switches towards each other for standard series wiring; away from each other for parallel wiring; and both towards one coil (either one) to shut that coil off.
In a P-Rails, that means you can get rail coil, P90 coil, series humbucker, and parallel humbucker switching, all in a very stealthy pickup ring, without having to fiddle with push pulls or mini-toggles.
I know you mentioned you already have the push-pulls, but it's my honest opinion to just leave them alone and get a Triple Shot ring.
That is, if you want to put a pickup ring on your Strat pickguard.
You can get the ring at
Wymore Guitars, an online store run by one of our very own forum bros (where I have received above-and-beyond service) for $27.95, and John (of Wymore Guitars) even has a coupon code (sdforum) for SDUGF members that knocks some of the price off.
-Hunter
