Stratocaster Project H-S-S From Junk:

Inspector #20

Inspector #20

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Artec Stacked Single Coils, Ceramic in the middle, A2 in the neck, with adjustable poles.

Bridge is a Dirty Fingers clone, 9.45k, Ceramic magnet wit two rows of adjustable poles.

Everything you see here is out of my junk box....

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Ok...

Now onto figuring out my H-S-S wiring with bridge tone control.

I have new Alpha mini pots and the basic harness is already wired...although I do have new CTS pots on hand, I can't see a reason not to use the mini 500k pots...

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Robert Herndon said:
Ok...

Now onto figuring out my H-S-S wiring with bridge tone control.

I have new Alpha mini pots and the basic harness is already wired...although I do have new CTS pots on hand, I can't see a reason not to use the mini 500k pots...

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Yeah the minis would be fine as long as theyre 500k like you said, wouldnt see where theyd be any issue at all.

If ya need a schematic here ya gowd3hss5l12_00__88445.1470694551.jpg
 
Ah i see, yeah looks like you have a inline switch, most imports have them. You can swap the numbering around for your schematic by matching the equivalents here.

Should be the Fender and the Import letter for letter5-ways_zps50961ac8.jpg
 
Oh ok, sorry bout that. This might help some. The top photo is almost what you need minus the push pull on the bottom bridge tone ( wire like yours is) but other than that, seems right elsewhere.

I also found this detail too for cross referencing the pole numbers. I gueas a 5way is technically a double pole 3way, so thats why they have the 2 areas shaded differently in the second photo .381801e492fd6734c182ca77132cf13d.jpg5-way_switch.png
 
Clockworkmike said:
Oh ok, sorry bout that. This might help some. The top photo is almost what you need minus the push pull on the bottom bridge tone ( wire like yours is) but other than that, seems right elsewhere.

I also found this detail too for cross referencing the pole numbers. I gueas a 5way is technically a double pole 3way, so thats why they have the 2 areas shaded differently in the second photo .View attachment 55457View attachment 55456
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Awesome! I could order up a new/different switch, but I want to try and use what I got on hand.
 
Ok, so the 7 pole switch appears to be very well made. I can replace it, of course, but if it works, why fix it???

Question is, can I get tone control over the bridge pickup with the 7 pole and how would I wire it???
 
This is what i pulled up online, Robert. Dunno if its gonna mess with your current wiring but this will share the middle pickups tone control with the bridge pickup. In the 1st position bridge only, you have independent control over the Tone 2 knob ( lowest) or it will share if you are using bridge and middle Stratocaster-5-way-switch-wiring.jpg
 
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