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adjason
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Joined Jan 9, 2010 Posts 6,366 Location virginia hello, I've got a 2003 standard Mexican strat with the humbucker in the bridge. I have been looking but can't seem to find a way to wire it up so the bridge pickup has a tone control...........I'd like to add the bridge pickup to the 2nd tone control..............I am kind of worried to try this as that humbucker is split (i thnk)in the 4th position and I don't want to mess this up.....thanks for any help-if I can tame that high end on the bridge this guitar is a winner
DenisS
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Joined Nov 27, 2009 Posts 436 Age 70 Location USAadjason said: hello, I've got a 2003 standard Mexican strat with the humbucker in the bridge. I have been looking but can't seem to find a way to wire it up so the bridge pickup has a tone control...........I'd like to add the bridge pickup to the 2nd tone control..............I am kind of worried to try this as that humbucker is split (i thnk)in the 4th position and I don't want to mess this up.....thanks for any help-if I can tame that high end on the bridge this guitar is a winner Click to expand...How, exactly do you want the controls to work? For instance, I used a super switch on my HSS strat and made the following happen: *One volume works all. *The lower tone control works on the bridge pickup when it is in humbucker mode (position 1). *All single coils positions (2 thru 5) use the upper tone control. *The Trembucker is automatically split in position 2. Looks stock - the super switch takes care of everything. It's a Highway One with good pickups from GFS and Duncan, along with greasebucket tone circuits. My Duncan SH6 splits very nicely. Very happy with it all. There are other ways to do it with less, more, or other options.
adjason
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Joined Jan 9, 2010 Posts 6,366 Location virginia Thanks - I guess I'm looking for the easiest most noninvasive way to make that bridge pickup have a tone control-In a perfect world I would make the middle and bridge pickup work off of that second tone control
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Joined Jul 26, 2007 Posts 328 Location Texas, USA dual concentric or push pull pot.
Ronsonic
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Joined Apr 14, 2010 Posts 1,583 Location Sunny Tampa, Florida Add a jumper to the switch. look at the back of the switch, you'll see where the tone controls for the neck and middle pickups are connected. Just follow the wires. Next to the lug on the switch where the middle pickup tone goes there is an unused lug. If you add a short bit of wire between those lugs they will now share that back tone control. Oops, I re-read your OP, this may not be a standard two row switch. So you may have to look more closely to find just where to jumper the lugs on the switch to add the tone control. The good news is that it is there, you'll just have to find it. It may still be just as simple as my initial description or a bit more complex, I don't have experience with that particular switch. But it is there. and possible.
user34603
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Joined Dec 5, 2016 Posts 431 Age 75 Location Richmond VA I make the neck pickup tone control also control the bridge pickup.... they are never on together, so after adding 1 jumper on the switch tabs ...each pickup gets a tone control alone and on position 2 and 4 ...you get 2 tone controls for the 2 pickups that are on. All by a small jumper for the bridge pickup tone from the neck pickup tone tab user34603
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Joined Dec 5, 2016 Posts 431 Age 75 Location Richmond VA Some switches are NOT like a Fender switch nor an 8-lug straight line offshore switch. Some older switches appear to have 3 connections on each side and a single connection in the middle of the switch. So wiring a bridge pickup for tone control may take a luthier to figure put for you.
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