Custom Series Parallel Stratocaster Wiring Mod, and Some Guitar Soldering Tips. 

I generally wire up my 5-way by swapping the hot leads for the bridge and middle at the pickup selector. The gives me: neck, neck+bridge, bridge, bridge+middle, middle. In effect, I swap one "cluck" for a Tele-like sparkle, which standard Strat wiring does not provide.

Me likee! EDIT: shopping list - soldering iron, rainbow ribbon cable, rotary switch thingy and maybe even a toggle switch instead. I was looking for a summer project so this and the Squier will do nicely.

Great mod. I installed a series/parallel switch in my HSS and a switchable 18 volt buffer. The buffer gives a totally different tone character

Damn, I liked the beak

Thanks Rob for the tips. I get to Brisbane fairly regularly so I'll give Gary a call and see what he can sort out for me. Thanks again✌

I'm super glad I've found your channel! I've got a super strat pickup setup that came with a split switch for the bridge humbucker. I'm planning on replacing it with a 3 pole series/parallel on/on/on similar to your setup. I'm toying with the idea of maybe integrating your setup too. Thanks very much

Nice mod, and very well explained. Thanks for helpfully sharing your knowledge with us 👍

Very cool switching idea.

Great vid. Love the idea !

I love this. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting

Fascinating stuff

Casino guitar is a great guitar, I got several guitars to compare, I don't know why the feeling is very comfortable to play, maybe light and balanced weight ergonomic fender strat design, I moded so many times with this guitar, I cut the headstock like you did and removed logo and that left white mark underneath, made BMG setup like yours, installed one YJM pickup with roller beneath, now original fender player pickups are installed.

Really appreciate you posting this Rob. I was looking for a way to include series wiring rather than the Dan Armstrong blender mod. I wired up your first version today, it works great and I prefer this to having a humbucker pickup in the bridge. Thanks again

Wow thank you o 👍🏻 Well wishings everytime

Fantastic!

Great job mate, excellent content, love your work. Instant sub. I'm working toward a custom strat wiring, I havent quite decided how I want it to work yet, suffice to say its gonna be utter madness. And certainly beyond my ability to design, I might hit you up when the time comes. I'm in Melbourne, where are you located if you don't mind me asking? I've seen so many of those casino strats but never happened to play one. Good to know they're well put together. I'm a big fan and proponent of well made inexpensive instruments, I've got a few by Artist, and my two main strats are by Haze, which I can recommend if you ever find one for cheap.

Thank you so much for this video. Is it possible to add an out of phase switch with this too?

So good to find you RU-vid videos. Do you have a wiring diagram for series /parallel toggle Switch for Seymour Duncan Humbucker? Have Squier Tele Affinity Deluxe with SD at the Bridge and T-Top at the Neck.

The body is ply wood !! If you look up the other end in the video you will see the laminations , It is surprising how well that works with a decent neck.

Since you have so many terminals why not do a switch where you enable the neck pickup when you are in the bridge or bridge and middle pickup. This way you have have bridge with neck or all 3 in or standard in series and in parallel :)

Blu-tak, you genious!! That will free-up my left hand for a cleaner solder ! The guitar sounds excellent, better than a lot of "Branded" instruments. Keep exploring, what do you think about the "50's" Fender wiring where the tone gets wired directly to the wiper of the volume along with the out-put, they say it makes the guitar a bit louder and cleaner as you roll the volume down. I am about to give it a go so wondered if you have tried it ?

I like your way of holding wires , was that clay ?

What dpdt switch is it? Thanks for the good video

You'll have a much better time using silicone jacketed stranded wire because it doesn't burn or shrink

I have a 1983 Fender "The Strat" which I bought from new. Originally it had the top tone pot replaced with a two position rotary switch that allowed the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th positions on the 5 way switch to change to In/Out of phase. This created a total of 9 tones when moving through the positions of the 5 way switch and the rotary switch. Now, over the years though, my original 2 position rotary switch has broken and I am unable to find a replacent. Over the years differnt techs have all had a go at rewiring/replacing with different pots but to no avail.My goal is to try and get my guitar back to its original wiring and tones. Quite frankly it sounds like crap now. I have found a wiring diagram but I need someone who can help out with sourceing parts and doing the tech work. Not sure whether this is something you do? I live in Byron Bay so hopefully the planets might allign and I'll get my old girl singing again.

Is it possible to have two S-1 Push switches, one to turn on the neck pickup and the other to get the guitar into series for any of the pickups

Do the 2 and 4 positions still noise-cancel when switched to series?

Do you know the Freeway 10 way switch? It's a drop in replacement for the 5-way switch. And has in the lower bank the regular strat tones and in the upper bank: bridge-middlein series, all three parallel, bridge-neck in series, bridge neck parallele and bridge neck in series.It's great and easy. I wanted to add some toggle switches to add out of phase possibilities, but replacing a tonepot with a rotary switch is also a nice idea. That makes that mod also invisible.

what's the difference between middle pickup with reversed polarity and with the normal One? And to mount the 12 pole switch or the Rotary switch, do i have to remove some wood from the Guitar?

Does anyone have a part number for the 4P3T rotary switch?

ROB MODS, What would you recommend as in passive components to Revoice guitar pickups?

But the neck + bridge combination the pickups are in push-pull?

On the mod with the 3pdt switch can I also use a standard 5way strat switch?

Do you believe that the first mod could be somehow implemented with hss strat in such a way that instead of middle and bridge in series one would get just the humbucker? I must say that I tried quite a few wiring diagrams and always end up with too few poles on switches.

HELP PLS!!! I have experience modding, I followed the diagram, quadruple checked the wiring, but still I have a really weird issue where my bridge pickup is giving less output than the other two. Everything is working as expected except for this one weird quirk. I’ve wired in 3 different bridge pickups thinking it was a problem with the pups but that didn’t fix it. Super frustrated, any idea what could be causing this?

Why did you use a knob from a toaster?

Friend, can I buy this 6PDT Potentiometer on Amazon? If so, could you please give me the link?

is this not similar to the brian may electric guitar selector switch with many caps?

look up the dan armstrong strat mod - you can generate the N+M in series and B+M in series using a blender pot as well as parallel out of phase N+M and B+M - the best part being you can reuse the tone pot and you can have some variability rather than all or nothing (as when you have a switch) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lWF1L7GBYfU.html

link to your website and the mods?