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For what it’s worth, Brian’s 2001 Silver Sparkle Explorer bridge pickup also has the same appearance. This might already have been mentioned, but in the Maladroit Guitar World article he said he wanted to get his Strats closer to the Explorer tone. There was something along the lines of that...

Very curious on this as well. I asked the boardie that spoke with him and updated Weezerpedia about the Red Strat info, but they only told me that it’s just a Strat with a coil split… If I had to guess based on the vague Karl comments about the many sounds it could do, maybe it’s a coil split...

Ah, that makes sense—appreciate the comparison pic! Weird, I wonder why Pat would think it’s a smaller size. Maybe that was the original idea before going to the standard size, but who knows.

Awesome, thanks! Curious to hear how the MV setup compares to the VV wiring.

Also I know that some of the Weezerpedia gear info was updated in the past ~4ish years by someone that spoke with Jason about guitar info (might be old news at this point though).

Howdy folks, been lurking in this thread as well—thanks for sharing this awesome research! Wanted to ask if y’all are running 250K or 500K pots in your builds and if you have any guesses as to what’s in either the Red or Blue strats. Thanks! Also thought this info from Pat on the ProSoundWeb...