Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

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Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

Post by Loomer » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:31 am

I recently bought a couple Lace Sensors for my Strat, so I'm finally gonna upgrade and rewire the thing. I'm putting a blue Lace in the neck, Silver in the middle, and a no-name Hotrail-esque humbucker in the bridge.

Besides general opinions and advice for the rewire, I was wondering if anyone had and could post any good instructional links so I can better know what I'm doing. I'm planning on tapping the humbucker, so any suggestions or bet yet, links to informative sites would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

Post by mezcalhead » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:03 am

I think the Seymour Duncan site has wiring schematics for all sorts of guitars, including Strats with various pickup combinations.
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Re: Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

Post by pullover » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:02 am

They have instructional videos too.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/ho ... a_pu.shtml
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Re: Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

Post by Loomer » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:59 am

(you don't happen to know what plug-in i'm missing that will allow me to view this video, do you?)


Anyone have a comment on pots and switches? Where to buy cheaply and yet still solid and non-tone sucking?

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Re: Bridge humbucker wiring for my Strat

Post by pullover » Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:09 pm

pretty sure the video is quicktime.
Alpha pots are good, you can get them from Smallbearelec.com (solid shaft) or guitarfetish.com (splitshaft), or get CTS from Guitarpartsresource.com

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