omitting the pickup selector blade switch

[DustyCat]

It was around this time almost 10 years ago (9 I think, cause I remember deliberately leaving this baby in the stables before I unsheathed her heh) anyways....

Just for future reference, I appreciate Warmoth representative letting me get my way  :icon_jokercolor: over the phone and omitting the pickup selector blade switch, because I opted for push pull pots. I went with Stealth Sustainiac, S/H with the guitar basically permanently stuck in the 4 position, then pull a pot and go straight hum bucker with the sustainiac.

now it all makes sense.  :icon_thumright:

So just for future reference, and maybe some R&D feedback, the blade switch is just too freakin' convenient, and rad when hit the strings and knock it down to the bridge in one motion and get that extra bite on a hard bend.

Oh also, I just want to go on record and say that I also dig the wider tonal palette of multiple pickups. I haven't played this rocket ship start in awhile, and I still cannot believe how "stray" it sounds with the S/H. I love that blocky sound.  :guitaristgif:

 

[Great Ape]

HUH?!? :dontknow:

 

[GearBoxTy]

How about a picture so we can see what you're talking about?  :laughing7:

 

[mayfly]

HUH?!? :dontknow:

I'm with you.  Eh?

 

[Glimmer]

HUH?!? :dontknow:

:laughing7:

 

[bagman67]

I am a longtime foe of auto-correct, and my guess is he meant to say "rocket ship STRAT" and "I love how STRATTY" (yeah, that could be a word) the guitar sounds.  So - and sorry if I'm putting words into your garbled mouth, DustyCat - I think this is a paean to his Warmoth, after not having played it in some time.

 

[DustyCat]

I am a longtime foe of auto-correct, and my guess is he meant to say "rocket ship STRAT" and "I love how STRATTY" (yeah, that could be a word) the guitar sounds.  So - and sorry if I'm putting words into your garbled mouth, DustyCat - I think this is a paean to his Warmoth, after not having played it in some time.

You would be correct sir. Strat is not recognized by autocorrect, nor is stray (nor is sh---y f----ing autotune, er...autocorrect, whatever.

I have to type them in twice. But yeah, alnico 2 pro and JB get that soft, hollow, blocky strat sound. (I thought the hum bucker would dominate it, but it doesnt). Also the tone rolled off gets very wah was sound when its open, more so than some of my other guitars.

Anyways, here's a pic, notice no toggle switch. It's been kind of a pain in the nuggets not to be able to switch with a flick of the wrist.  :doh: I'd like to install a toggle switch with a kill switch option to get some more "chop" in the future. Oh well lesson learned.

But, my main goal here  :redflag: with this post is to warn others about making the same mistake as I did, so take it for what its worth.

 

[stratamania]

Your only a pickguard and some work away from being able to have a selector switch...when I first read I thought you had omitted this on a rear rout which would be more difficult to solve.

 

[DustyCat]

Your only a pickguard and some work away from being able to have a selector switch...when I first read I thought you had omitted this on a rear rout which would be more difficult to solve.

Sweet! Thanks for the input.  :icon_thumright:

 

[stratamania]

Your only a pickguard and some work away from being able to have a selector switch...when I first read I thought you had omitted this on a rear rout which would be more difficult to solve.

Sweet! Thanks for the input.  :icon_thumright:

Thanks.

 

[MikeW]

This is really an interesting thread for me because I recently had a friend of a friend ask me something similar. His idea was an SSS Strat with only master volume + master tone for controls.

I told him that it could be done (easily really) and would probably sound similar to an SSS Strat with a blender and the switch in the 4th position. I'll be interested to try it out, if/when he decides to go ahead and build it.

 

[DslDwg]

New pickguard - problem solved?

 

[Cagey]

This is really an interesting thread for me because I recently had a friend of a friend ask me something similar. His idea was an SSS Strat with only master volume + master tone for controls. 

That's a pretty common request. It's how I wire nearly all my guitars. S-D even has a diagram dedicated to it for Strats...

Looks like they've upgraded their wiring diagram page, too. Now you don't have to look for what you want, you can just specify it and it'll show the appropriate diagram.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

This is really an interesting thread for me because I recently had a friend of a friend ask me something similar. His idea was an SSS Strat with only master volume + master tone for controls. 

That's a pretty common request. It's how I wire nearly all my guitars. S-D even has a diagram dedicated to it for Strats...

Looks like they've upgraded their wiring diagram page, too. Now you don't have to look for what you want, you can just specify it and it'll show the appropriate diagram.

This is my preferred Strat wiring too.  I could even go so far as to omit the tone pot completely, but then the corksniffers would form a lynch mob, so I digress.

 

[Logrinn]

I could even go so far as to omit the tone pot completely, but then the corksniffers form a lynch mob, so I digress.

:laughing7: :laughing7: :laughing7:

 

[MikeW]

This is really an interesting thread for me because I recently had a friend of a friend ask me something similar. His idea was an SSS Strat with only master volume + master tone for controls. 

That's a pretty common request. It's how I wire nearly all my guitars. S-D even has a diagram dedicated to it for Strats...

Looks like they've upgraded their wiring diagram page, too. Now you don't have to look for what you want, you can just specify it and it'll show the appropriate diagram.

Sorry Cagey. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. ONLY master volume and master tone for controls with no switch at all. Three single coils, master volume, and master tone is what he's thinking of doing.

The diagram you've got is pretty much what I'm thinking it would take to do it. Just take the three leads (white, hot) and join them on the top-left lug on the volume pot and Voila!

edit: spelling oopsie...

 

[Cagey]

Oh, ok. Well, that sorta makes more sense as it sounded like what he wanted was pretty common.

I'll pass this along, though. I did a couple Strats where I put three toggles in place of the 5 position blade switch. Gives you 8 choices of pickup arrangement if you include "all off", and one of them includes "all on" which would be what your friend is essentially asking for. It worked, but "all on" is not particularly useful. I can't describe what it sounded like now, I just remember thinking I'd done a lotta work for essentially nothing. Although, I did get the bridge + neck selection, which Strats don't normally do. Also not terribly impressed with that. Then, switching got to be a bigger pain in the shorts than the blade. Sometimes required two or three moves to do what you could do in one move with the blade. I guess what I'm saying is the traditional B - B/M - M - M/N - N arrangement on a blade is really the optimal setup.

For whatever that's worth  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Strat Avenger]

I could even go so far as to omit the tone pot completely, but then the corksniffers form a lynch mob, so I digress.

Not me. My Warmoth Strat has ONE volume control and NO tone knobs. There is never a time when I feel the need to roll off any high-end. I set the tone controls on the amp to what I like and stay with that. I get 5 tone variations with the 5-way selector switch. It just doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.

:laughing7:

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I could even go so far as to omit the tone pot completely, but then the corksniffers form a lynch mob, so I digress.

Not me. My Warmoth Strat has ONE volume control and NO tone knobs. There is never a time when I feel the need to roll off any high-end. I set the tone controls on the amp to what I like and stay with that. I get 5 tone variations with the 5-way selector switch. It just doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.

:laughing7:

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