How to Change Single Coils to Humbuckers | Fender 

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Love the fact that Fender would even be open to the concept of even releasing a video that shows you how to mod their own products. Very cool.

I just notice that from the start his voice sounds like single coil then at 7:36 it sounded like humbucker

Using a Fender Super switch with 5 Pickup selector combination , it`s possible to get the inner coil on the bridge Humbucker in parallel with the outer coil of the neck Humbucker pickup (Position 2 ) and Bridge Humbucker out of phase and in Series with Neck Humbucker ( Position 4 ). This in my opinion would give some choice extra tones.

Excellent tutorial, simple and clear. Well done, it´s an amazing job.

Great video, a tip of the hat to Fender for making really practical videos!

I like the patient point by point strategy of showing how to solder the wiring diagram together, one piece at a time. Each solder joint is clearly seen and you show the viewer how to 'set up' each solder joint by hooking the wires around existing wires in order to stabilize the joints to be soldered, thereby keeping the target wires to be soldered from moving around while you use both of your hands to hold the soldering iron and also hold the solder wire. Keeping the target wires to be soldered from moving or waving around is important while you are trying to solder them together. The wires should be supported or secured using the bending technique to brace the wire in the solder joint prior to adding the solder. Stabilizing the joint 'before' applying solder is a key element of effective soldering. Excellent calm and organized approach. You converted this into a very different and really very nice hh strat. I like the black pickguard. This looks a lot like my fender black top strat. You produced a very beautiful guitar indeed.

Disappointed that you didnt play it!...

This is a dream. Fender build quality is amazing. I own PRS SE & Fender Tele FMT!

That helped me a lot, and it was a really beautiful guitar.

very informative, very useful info as I am currently working on my first guitar project ... thanks

Very clear and concise, great video! Thanks!

Is it just me or does this guy look like Phil Anselmo

Let's make a tutorial video on a dark color guitar with black pickguard (because we, Fender, don't own lots of guitars), using black table and background. Uh oh, let's assign a black shirted host too. Voila!!!

Excellent demo! Thx.

A most excellent video sir! Thank you!!🤘

I love when Phil Anselmo shows us stuff on these Fender videos

My telecaster was routed for a humbucker, good job Leo Fender

Very good video. Very helpful!

good video except for that small segment of music , that made me almost have a heart attack

This is exactly what I plan on doing this weekend. I'm glad I found this!

Nice complete video! It helps to not have to route an old style body, if you do this mod. (!)

I wanted to hear the finished product!

Such a very creative video. But can you please also make a video on how to split coil those two? So it will still have a sound of a single coil. And you will have a humbucker and 2 single coil sound on one pick up.

I bought a Strat copy at garage sale for $10. replaced pickups with Fenders. it sounds killer. winning

When is fender going place the volume knob further away from the bridge pick up?

Great video. Is it possible to list all the parts and can i keep the middle puckup as well as the 2 humbuckers?

Do all strats have routing like this under the pickguard? For instance would older or mexi strats still have the HSH configuration in the actual body???

Tak's nice explications

Great video! Could you provide parts list? I'm checking my local online Fender shop and I don't find some of the items.

i am grateful sir. More wisdom

I was waiting for you to play it..

Would it work if i upgrade my SSS mexico strat’s bridge with a dimarzio super distortion and not change the current pots ?

Thanks

Can you do one for changing to hss? cause I'm making a Billie Joe Armstrong-esque Stratocaster, only difference is that i'm changing to an SH5 instead of SH4.

That's granted that the Strat already has humbucker cavities in it. If I'm not mistaken, most Strats don't have an HSH routing. I think HSS is the most common with new Strats.

Would a dimarzio fast track fit in the bridge position for a stock squier affinity or would I need to get a new pickgaurd too?

Quick question would this be the same as doing this with only a master volume and master tone but instead the capacitor would not have to go through two tone pots correct?

I want to put humbuckers (the single stacked sized ones) into my Road Worn Strat. Does anyone know if the pickup cavity is deep enough in the vintage spec bodies to accommodate the longer ‘legs’ of the humbuckers?

my player strat will soon become an hss strat. just have to wait for the new pickguard.

Great!!! Can you make a Tutorial with a Neck Humbucker for a Telecaster with Single coil in the Bridge? I need this for my Tele but I don´t know how to do :-( Thank you.

Is it possible to maybe replace the middle single coil with a humbucker, leaving the bridge/neck singles?

to test if it has a good connection, turn on amp, plug in amp, and touch hot hot part of the jack to the pickups, if a static in amplified, you did it right

does this wiring allow cool splitting? if yes, how so? would appreciate any and all help, as i intend to convert my strat from HSS to HH too. this video did not help as much as i would’ve liked it to

One thing I would like to know is how I distinguish in CTS, which are the volume and tone pots; Is there a letter or number on the back of the pot that tells me how to know this?

I have a question. I have A stratocaster 1997 (crafted in japan) I'm trying to see if everything. I see the number on the neck but is there serial number on the pick ups?

i normally see one ground wire at the tremolo spring cavity (the claw). but i notice you wired all grounds to the back of the volume pot.... how is this different? Is it safe for me to straight away modify my wiring to mimic this wiring?

Just asking, is it possible to do this with my SSS strat: Hot single coil at bridge, Medium output single coil at middle & low output single coil sized humbucker at neck? I have seen teles with a single coil in the bridge and a humbucker in the neck, but what about with a strat? Thankyou :)

i just decided to switch my strat (that you see in my profile photo), from sss into HH, and i'm really thankful i found this great video, its really helpful, thanks alot :)

Is it easier to go from a standard to hss style or hss to standard or is it the same

If I swap my SSS 70s Fender Strat to HH (2 x mini humbuckers), I would have to enlarge the cavities. Would it be a problem switching back to SSS later on? Ideally would like 2 tone knobs and 1 master volume knob for the 2 minihumbucker set up.

Dark guitar with dark pickguard, over a dark table aheah of a dark background with a dark shirted host; now we know how Prague's Black Theatre was invented.

beautiful

will this video work if my strat has a humbucker in the bridge position, a single coil in the middle and neck position? also, I want to get rid of both the tone knobs, i never ever use them. help pls?

Can you do only a humbucker on the bridge ? like H configuration ?

Personally I think the MIM Standards were the best mod platforms in the entire universe. Great guitars with 'meh' electronics begging you to do what you want with the guitar, make it yours. I don't mean to insult the model, they were really good off the rack. But a good playing Mexi could always be made into a BEAST with an electronics upgrade. I call it 'The Secret Custom Shop'. The secret Fender Custom Shop probably opened in 1950. It's been operating on kitchen tables and in garages of Fender owners non stop ever since. And the favorite guitars for this secret custom shop have been the MIM Standards, at least for the last few decades. That's not a knock on Fender. There are a LOT of modified and sincerely loved Mexi's out there, tweaked and bent into exactly what the player wanted. The MIM Standards should have included a soldering iron ;) I swear I mean to compliment and praise Fender over this. I know I called the pickups 'meh'... but very few people loved those old ceramic pickups. My single coil tastes are stupid simple personally... I love Texas Specials. And they sound great in a Mexican Standard. The ease of modding is a perk. The fact that the MIM Standards are so well made you can be justified upgrading and putting expensive pickups in... is a compliment. You find a good playing Fender, you mod it, hot rod it, and make it your own. It's an old and respected tradition.

Can I still use this wiring if I just have 1 tone instead of 2? I don’t understand any diagrams online

Kinda leaves you wondering what the double humbuckers sound like in comparison to the singles. It'd be nice to hear it strung up.

Does anyone have the correct wiring diagram for the 3 way switch?? As every one I’ve seen have been different, including the one on Fender website. This is video is for 1 volume & 2 tone, but the diagram it shows it 2 volume/ 1 tone !?

Do 2005 Mexican Telecaster's have cavities large enough for humbuckers? I wanna go the Lukas Nelson way and just have a P-90 humbucker at the saddle. Leaving the neck single coil there is fine too.

How difficult is it to change out a humbucker to a single noiseless pickup w S1 switch? Thank you

Can I have the tossed loaded pick guard?. I'd just install a dimarzio twin rail

Hi can you do this mod on the Fender American Special Strat OW 2015 ? Thanks

How to test pickups without strings: 1. Plug guitar in amp 2. Take screwdriver 3. Beat the living shit out off the pickup

Fantastic..

How do you do it the other way around humbucker Gibson and i want to put lipstick or single coils into it

What about going to a HSS? Do you swap the pot for the lower to a 500k?

This dudes voice completely changed a quarter way through the video

Looks like the recipe for a bunch of cold solder joints on the ground wires. (I've been taught to heat the metal with the iron, not the flux.) Also seems like the wires may or may not be making direct contact with the tabs and pots. You need metal to metal contact - don't rely on the solder to carry your guitar's signal. Since this video is mostly watching you solder wires, you should mention the type of solder used, the specs (wattage, variable?) of the iron, and do basics of pre-tinning and surface prep. (no need to sand new pots). This video can't decide on its purpose: sonic changes from SSS to HH (not shown), how to assemble a pickguard (its just a few screws), how to solder a pickguard (poor example). Also not addressed: the body might not be routed for humbuckers in some models, or electronics cavity could be too shallow for the new pots (especially if you start adding push/pull coil taps). You should inspect your guitar first to even see if it can take full sized humbuckers, and test fit the loaded pickguard before wiring it up.

Is the fender player series Stratocaster body ready to put humbuckers in without having to do anything extra to it?

The Fender blacktop Stratocaster, allows you to place 3 simple coils, without having to make a new hole in the middle?

Do fender guitars come from the factory equipped for two humbuckers if you want to change them. Or do you haft to route them yourself

so do all American professional strat's have the same body, with room for humbuckers?? If that's the case, that's awesome!

CTS pots don't need the "scuffing" at all! It actually makes for a messy solder, it doesn't pool as nicely as a smooth, not-scuffed pot. The pot itself, I belive, it has some flux coating on it to ease the solder 'pooling' and flow.

There should be a video on how to do a wiring job like Eddie Van Halen’s frankenstrat.

where do you get the schematic on the website?

so would the pickup switch be neck single/hum/bothhum/bridge hum/bridge single then ??

Question: Do you need to change the pots or can you keep the ones you already have?

His head is floating.

+fender Pleeeeease keep making good videos like this amazing one! But also.... adjust the dam volume on the video to match the intro and outtro... turn it up to hear the video instructions, then get blasted in the ears when random guitar comes in....

What length of the screws for the pickup mounting?

dumb question does this work with the left handed 2022 American Ultra Strats?

Ainda bem que quem faz a parte elétrica das guitarras não é esse cara

Sounds like a good idea. Who at fender provides advice

Are all fenders and squires a HSH configuration underneath the pick guard? 23:27

Can the pickups on a Telecaster be changed to Humbucker pickups,?

hello,,what solder you use about fender?i want to know.

He said washer & meant nut while installing the three pots.. Also those quick connections that are like EMG connectors will be in all guitars eventually, It just makes making the connections easy without soldering.. There needs to be quick connectors on the pots & output jack as well making it a no solder quick install..

Whys everyone so butt hurt that people wanna change their single coil to a humbucker? Can't people be free to do what they like?

Can i change american performer strat SSS to humbucker?

Poor solder joins. They didn't heat them enough.

Does a Mexican standard from 2017 have the cavity space for humbuckers?

Alot of people cringe & put down people for swapping to 'buckets on strats but I love mine even more since I swapped(made mine a HH) Its a free world people!...different strokes for different folks! I still like SSS strats but I love HSS & HH too. I just love strats regardless of kind of pickups

what happens if you put a bridge pickup in the neck position?

I'm just curious, do all SSS strats have a cavity big enough to fit a humbucker? Or was that guitar that he modded was originally an HSH strat? I'm planning to build my own strat and thinking that maybe getting an HSH body is the way to go. That way if in the future, I can change it to a HSS, HSH, etc. I wasnt sure if the cavity size in the body affected the harmonics or feedback of the pickups. Great video btw!

Black workbench makes it hard to find runaway hardware, and is especially bad for video taping.

How do I wire a bridge pick up make a video on this please I don't want a whole system this just confuses me.

Se puede hacer en una Fender Squier bullet..?

Any address where I can get the kit?Fender can provide it?

What's the value on the capacitor that's being used?