A better way to do this Strat wiring?

[mr_sooty]

I really wanted a neck/bridge combo on my Strat. I couldn't be bothered with push pull pots, toggle switches or the like, and I decided I was quite happy to sacrifice the middle/bridge quack combo.

So what I did was simply switch the neck and middle pickup wires on the pickup selector switch. This gives me the following combos: Middle, Middle/Neck, Neck, Neck/Bridge, Bridge.

I like this effect, I find the Neck/Bridge combo more useful than the Middle/Bridge, and I still have a good number of traditional Strat sounds as well.

Only thing is it's a bit of a pain having to find that 'middle' position when I want to use the neck pickup. It's much easier to just 'fick' to the usual neck position, but that's where I get the middle pickup on it's own now, which I don't use much.

I know that Fenders 'Classic Player 50's Strat' has a Neck, Neck/Middle, Middle, Neck/Bridge, Bridge switching configuration. I believe they use a super switch to achieve this.

Have you guys got any smart ideas as to how I could acheive that switching combo without buying a super switch? Or am I just dreaming?

[newey]

Let's see, no Superswitch, no toggles, no push/pull pots . . .

You don't leave us much to work with!

No way to do it with the std. Strat switch, not with N+B in position 2 and neck in position 5.

Only thing that's left is to use one of the pots:

ChrisK's Free Neck On Switch

[chuck]

3 mini toggles mounted in the switch slot would be the easiest way to get any combination you want

[JohnH]

The free neck on that newey points to is what comes to mind first - and is easy to try. Thinking further, do you use your middle pup on its own? If not, I could see a way of using all the current standard parts to get, in order, B, B+N, nothing, N+M, N. And by swapping your current N and M pups on the guitar, both B+N and N+M could be humcancelling.

Ill leave there as a thought for anyone who wishes to puzzle over it!

J

[mr_sooty]

That free neck on thing sounds really interesting. Anyone tried it? I'll probably stick to how I've got it for now until such a time a sI can be bothered installing a super switch. I figured I was probably asking the impossible, but just thought I'd check in case I was missing something.

[D2o]

John,

I don’t know if this is along the lines of what you were referring to, but I also like the bit of magic you (all too easily!) came up with here.

I used it – and loved it - for a while, before switching to your “other” version of the Strat Lover’s Strat.

Thank you, again and again.

D2o

(I am linking for the benefit of mr-sooty)