Wiring a Tele Switch in a Strat with 2 Humbuckers?

[Umfufu]

Hi all!,
I'm a complete noob to all this so please be as simple as posible.

I'm rewiring my old Squier Strat from scratch.
I have 2 Seymour Duncan humbuckers in it & a Tele 3-way switch.
I'm keeping the 1 Volume, 2 Tone setup too.

I can't find any detailed wiring diagrams for the switch though.

Can you help?

[David Schwab]

Here's two humbuckers with the three way switch and 1 volume and tone.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...tele_2hum.html

Then what you want to do is don't wire the tone control in that diagram.

Then wire up your tones like this:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support..._1v_2t_3w.html

Just use the Tele 3-way switch from the other diagram.

Basically all you need to do is wire each tone control to that lug on the switch where the pickup lead is soldered.

Strats often had only one tone cap, so you need to get two, one for each pot.

[Umfufu]

Would this work with a few changes?



On the left side of the switch:

1. The bridge wire connected as shown but continues to the lug next to it too (where the middle + is pictured).

2. Center lug on the Neck Tone Pot is connected on the 3rd switch lug down (where the Neck + is currently shown).

3. Nothing connected to the 4th lug of the switch.

On the right side of the switch:

1. Nothing connected to the first lug (furthest right).

2. Left lug (as seen from above) of the bridge tone pot is connected to the 2nd lug of the switch.

3. Neck pickup connected to 3rd & 4th lug.


This would mean I would only be using 1 tone cap, connected as shown.


Sorry if my explanation is confusing!

[Umfufu]

Ok had a look with fresh eyes this morning.

Going to just go with the diagrams that David Schwab gave.

BUT,
1 thing I still don't get is the wiring of the switch.

In my switch, the top right & bottom left lugs are always "on".

Like here.




But if I wire it like shown here

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...tele_2hum.html


then both pickups will be on all the time.

So, I'm thinking I need to wire the switch as shown in the Strat diagram above but connect the 2 tone pots to the switch lugs with the corresponding pickups.

Am I missing something or is this ok?

[David Schwab]

The switch has four terminals on each side. One is the common wiper that shorts to each of the other three. The other side is the same thing in reverse. We will call the wiper C, and the others 1,2 and 3.

In the Duncan diagram the pickup connects to one of the wiper (C) terminals. The two that are wired together are 1&2 and 2&3, depending on which side you are looking.

So one pickup works in positions 1&2, but not in 3, and the other is positions 2&3, but not on 1.

On a Strat the pickups go to 1,2,3, and the output is the wiper (C) terminal. Either way works. If you do it the strat way, you wire one pickup to lug 1&2, and the other to 2&3. The output would be from the two common wiper lugs, which would be wired together.

In either case wire you tone controls to the same lug that the pickup is connected to.

Does that makes sense?

[Umfufu]

Makes sense now.

I'm just realising now exactly how little I know!
I didn't understand how the switch worked before which is why the Duncan diagram was confusing me.

Thanks for all the help!

One last thing, I assume that I can use two .022 Capacitors instead of the .047 ones?

Not a big deal but I'll have to order new ones if I can't use the ones I have.

[David Schwab]

Yeah, I would use .023. I use .047 for bass.

I was confused by the Duncan diagram for a moment. I was used to seeing it the other way.

[Umfufu]

Thanks for all your help David.

Just thought I'd show you the finished result.

I went from this:




to this:



It's my first guitar project & I learned a lot.
It's great after so many years of playing to actually know what's inside my instrument.

Can't wait to have a go with my SX Fretless bass next!

[David Schwab]

Cool! Looks great!