Strat Wiring Diagram Bridge Tone Control

In the last fifty four years tastes changed a lot and now few stratocaster players use the bridge pickup alone because the sound is too trebly and shrill to them.
Strat wiring diagram bridge tone control. This is the best wiring method to use when you are using a volume and tone control for each pickup. Strat style guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 2 tones. How tone control wiring works. The bottom diagram shows the wiring that gibson uses for its volume controls.
7 sound strat wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume and 2 tones. This was the lead tone for western swing and back in the good old days of the fifties there was simply no need for a tone control for the bridge pickup. The contents of this diagram in whole or part are copyrighted and published for. Example 2 often you can find the tone split mod together with the bptc mod for even more flexibilty many strat players favor this one.
By simply adding one wire to your strat s 5 way switch you can connect the bridge pickup to the second tone control allowing you to tame it. This will be the simplest design with 1 pickup 1 volume and 1 tone control. Stratocaster with blender pot. Typical standard fender stratocaster guitar wiring with master volume plus 1 neck tone control and one middle pickup tone control.
First we need the hot wire and ground wire from our pickup. Solder the ground wire to the back of the volume pot. Fender stratocaster wiring diagram with middle bridge tone. Strat with a push pull switch on the neck tone control to allow neck bridge and neck middle bridge pickup combinations.
This standard stratocaster wiring diagram features a neck tone 0 02mfd and a bridge middle tone 0 02mfd. Gibson generally uses 500k pots. 5 way stratocaster read our step by step guide to wiring a strat gilmour strat wiring mod 7 way strat 50s style stratocaster 50s tone pot. Now that we have the parts out of the way let s take a look at how tone control wiring works.