Strat help needed!

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Hey there...
I'm planning on buying an American Deluxe HSS Strat BUT...a very critical question.The neck and middle stock pickups will be replaced by single coil-sized humbuckers.Will they split on this particular model?I just can't figure it out elsewhere,so I really need your help!
 
Re: Strat help needed!

Well, if you're going to replace them, it depends on which pickups you put in, and how you wire 'em up.

Are you talking stacked humbuckers, or rail?

If you're feeling crafty, you could proabably wire it similarly to the DiMarzio/Ibanez setup, where positions 2 & 4 aren't whole pickups, but two coils from separate pickups.
 
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I'm probably going after the two Furys.
1-3-5 whole pickups,2 bridge/middle in parallel and 4 middle/neck in series(or the other way round?) would be nice.But regardless of what would be my choice,is there a knob on the instrument that does the split job or personal work is inevitable?
Sorry about the irrelevance,I've never owned a strat before...
 
Re: Strat help needed!

jtougas said:
Well, if you're going to replace them, it depends on which pickups you put in, and how you wire 'em up.

Are you talking stacked humbuckers, or rail?

If you're feeling crafty, you could proabably wire it similarly to the DiMarzio/Ibanez setup, where positions 2 & 4 aren't whole pickups, but two coils from separate pickups.
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Welcome to the forums...Why not go into the general topics area and introduce yourself?
 
Re: Strat help needed!

If you're going for Furies, get rid of the whatever terrible bridge pickup is in there. Fender, with the rare exception of the EVH Wolf pups, have no clue how to wind/design good humbuckers, IMHO. Too hot, to harsh, too middy and never blends well with the singles they use. Furies are very low output.
 
Re: Strat help needed!

If its the YJM fury you're after, then you might also be on the wrong track in regard to them being a single sized humbucker. The fury is a stack design which has a dominant positive coil, and a secondary coil which makes it hum cancelling, but is wound to be subtractive from the main coil. In this case the 'split' is hotter than the 'full', as you remove the subtractive element.
 
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