Strat Wiring question.

[adamguit94ar]

I'm building a Warmoth Strat and need help with wiring. If you look at the duncan wiring diagram for a strat with 3 singles, 1 volume, 2 tones, and 5 way switch; there is a wire that runs between the two tone pots and to the volume pot. To be more specific, it is thinner than all the other wires, and in the diagram it is on the the right side of the .22 capacitor. If you know which wire I'm talking about; what is that wire!?!?!? And where do I get it? Also where can I get the "push back cloth wire"?

I'm using seymour pickups BTW.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Strat Wiring question.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=3s_1v_2t_5w

That one?

That wire is a ground wire. You get a spool of wire from a place like Radio Shack and some solder and a soldering iron and some wire strippers/cutters and you make it yourself.

You don't need push back cloth wire. Some old pickups came with it, before the modern invention of "better" wire.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Strat Wiring question.

+1

The only stipulation is that the grounding wire must be insulated between the solder joints to prevent accidental shorts.

One thing to be said in favour of "push back" cable. It holds its shape. If you bend it to drop neatly into a traditional SSS routed Stratocaster, it will drop in cleanly right away, every time.