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cool strat mods? post here folks!

  • 31-10-2005 1:09am
    #1
    punchdrunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭


    okay folks will soon be turning to the darkside and getting a strat,but i don't want a plain old strat! so let me know what you've done to yours? any advice on good pickups? anybody re wired theirs? let me know!


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  • #2
    LundiMardi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭LundiMardi


    why are you gonna buy a strat if you're just gonna rewire it and change the pickups etc?

    Anyway, i have one, and i'm just waiting on a SD JB Jnr i ordered for the bridge position, i'm hoping that'll it'll sound sweet, time will tell.


  • #3
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    i went crazy with mine, drew on teh scratch plate, cut a hole in the bridge to fit a humbucker, put beer caps on teh knobs, scalloped some of the neck, put my name on the headstock, covered the truss rod cover, ive a right handed whammy ar stuck ina leftie bridge, i rewired it, its a crazy guitar, its been thru alot and i lvoe it :D theres some pics in teh scaloping guitar thread


    Oh, and steve vai was amazed by it ;) heh he said it was cool too :)


  • #4
    Johnny Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,993 ✭✭✭Johnny Storm


    I haven't actually done anything to my strat yet (unless pickling it in 3-in-1 oil counts as a mod) but a simple mod that seems to make sense is changing the second tone knob to work on the bridge pick-up instead of the middle pup.
    http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/bridgetone.php


  • #5
    Eoin Madsen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Eoin Madsen


    punchdrunk wrote:
    okay folks will soon be turning to the darkside and getting a strat,but i don't want a plain old strat! so let me know what you've done to yours? any advice on good pickups? anybody re wired theirs? let me know!

    Get some Fralins. SDs are passé these days. ;)

    I haven't done anything to my Strat because it's Mexican and I hate it. But if I had a good Strat I'd rewire it to add Bridge/Neck and Bridge/Middle/Neck as pickup options. Possibly just wire it for three volume knobs, one for each pickup. It's not like I ever use the Tone control, so I think I might hardwire it with a fixed resistor. Or get a Warmoth Strat and have it routed for an extra pot. And a bridge humbucker. Then you could add a coil tap.

    Maybe a switch for putting the pickups in series. Dunno if that'd be great though... I did it to my bass and haven't found a use for the sound yet. Turns out they wire them in parallel because it sounds better. :)


  • #6
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Just put another 5 way switch in it ;) Wire it up to put pickups in serial or parellel, put different caps/resistors across each. Loads of options tbh.


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