Guitar Tricks
By Dan Torres
Adding the tone control function to the bridge pickup of a
Stratocaster:
This is a real simple trick. All you are really doing is adding a
jumper on the strat 5 way switch so the middle pickup tone control is
active on both the middle and bridge pickup.
The jumper just "short circuits" the assignment of
the tone control so it works on both pickups.
This is a quick way to do it.
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CGE
Guitar pots lots of values available!
Strat
5 way switch, U.S. made
Torres
Engineering Volume Kit
Cool
Mallory Guitar Caps
basic info:
Guitars have a "common ground" - all the ground wires go together and
are normally soldered to the back of a pot. Usually this is all the
black wires from single coil pickups.
If you have humbuckers or 4 conductor pickups, check out your color
code chart (should have come with the pickups) for the ground and "hot"
wires.
The capacitor on the tone control can vary in value over quite a wide
range - it has nothing to do with this mod trick.