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Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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Can anyone help me out with this
I'd like to wire my Strat with two controls and a three way tele switch plus a toggle.

Ideally
Standard tele
Neck
Neck plus bridge
Bridge

With a switch that would add the middle pickup in series with either the neck or bridge or both to give a thicker sound on occasion.

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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I guess another way of looking at it is that I want to add a middle pickup to a tele wiring set up, but keep the three way switch and use a toggle to activate the middle pickup

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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Actually, is this what I want?
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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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I can't seem to find an on-on-on three way toggle so if anyone knows how to use an on-on two may mini toggle in this that would be cool. The three way toggle always for the middle to be sued alone, but I don't need that.

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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Actually, is this what I want?
No, You want the pick up either in series or shortened out. Jaycar have a $4.50 four pole toggle switch that will do the job.
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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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thank you!

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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a regular DPDT switch can do the job, I did a (vaguely) similar setup in a 3 x P90 guitar based on the Troy Van leeuwen Yamaha.

If we number the terminals like so:
1 2
3 4
5 6

connect 1 to the 3 way switch output and a jumper to 6
connect 2 to the middle pup hot
connect 3 to the middle pup ground
connect 4 to vol pot input
connect 5 to earth

when the switch is up (1-3, 2-4 connected) the mid pup is in series with whatever is coming from the three way, when it's down the 3 way selection goes through unaffected (and mid is grounded via 5)

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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Confused, are you wanting the standard Tele positions with the toggle one way and then the extra strat positions with the toggle the other way?

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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I understand it as:

toggle off
standard tele 3 way: N, N+B, B

toggle on adds mid in series giving:
3 way: N*M, (N+B)*M, B*M

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Re: Strat wiring - 3 way plus switch

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Thanks for that, yep that's the idea.
It's going into a Strat but using the neck and bridge as tele style set up with the the option to throw the mid pickup in there.

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