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Post subject: Korean Squier Bullet wiring help needed.
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:04 am
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Hello all,

I seem to be having trouble posting this question. Hope it does not post more than once.

I am restoring a Korean Squier Bullet and need some help with the wiring. I cannot find the wiring diagram online.

The guitar is the Tele body with a Strat neck style Bullet. It has no pickguard and has a control cavity in back. It has two single coils, a humbucker, a volume pot, a tone pot and a 5-way switch.

Does anyone have a wiring diagram they could share with me? Otherwise, could someone who has this model check the wiring on their guitar?

I have a pretty good guess as to how the pots and the single coils wire up. I am stumped on the humbucker. It has 3 wires and the shield wire. There is white, blue and red wires along with the stranded shield wire. Can anyone tell me which wire goes where?

Also, does the tone pot wire to the volume pot or to the 5-way?

Any help is appreciated.

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Norm


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Post subject: Re: Korean Squier Bullet wiring help needed.
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:57 am
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normj wrote:
Hello all,

I seem to be having trouble posting this question. Hope it does not post more than once.

I am restoring a Korean Squier Bullet and need some help with the wiring. I cannot find the wiring diagram online.

The guitar is the Tele body with a Strat neck style Bullet. It has no pickguard and has a control cavity in back. It has two single coils, a humbucker, a volume pot, a tone pot and a 5-way switch.

Does anyone have a wiring diagram they could share with me? Otherwise, could someone who has this model check the wiring on their guitar?

I have a pretty good guess as to how the pots and the single coils wire up. I am stumped on the humbucker. It has 3 wires and the shield wire. There is white, blue and red wires along with the stranded shield wire. Can anyone tell me which wire goes where?

Also, does the tone pot wire to the volume pot or to the 5-way?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Norm


Ok...I'm just making some educated guesses here...hopefully someone else will come along and have something more/better for you.

Ok...on the humbucker, I could be wrong but I think you need to tie the red and white wires together then of course your ground wire is negative and get's soldered to a pot and then I think you use the green lead and the red/white mix to connect to the switch. -If- that is the case then it would be similar to what is at http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02CPg2.pdf except that you'd be using 1 less tone pot. How you wired the tone pot is really up to you...you could wire it to any one pickup or just all of them...one tone control to rool all of your pickups back...makes things really simple. To help you find variations on this, do a Google search for "Strat wiring Hss" and you should find a ton of wiring options.

I can't speak for Fender pickups specifically but I know with Duncan's...at least their "stacked" humbuckers, you always have to tie the red and white wires together -unless- you want to install a coil splitting switch (which is a nice option). After looking at a couple of the wiring diagrams here on Fender's site, I suspect the Fender Humbuckers are very much the same way. For that matter I would think with a little imagination, one could even wire in a switching pot so that instead of drilling a hole for a little switch to activate the coil splitting, you just pull on your volume (or tone) knob and it's there.



This is just me but personally I'd go with the switch wiring for the Standard Strat HSS and try tying those two wires together...I'd be willing to bet it would sound pretty sweet. Either way while I know it's not much, hopefully it's enough to get you started.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!
Jim


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Jim,

Thanks for that diagram. That is one I had not looked at yet. Its closer than the ones I have. I did see over at Seymour Duncan about tieing off the red and white wires. That was also shown in one of two Fender diagrams I have been studying. The Squier Standard HSS shows the red and white tied. In that diagram, the pickup has 4 wires plus the bare shield. I have also been studying the Big Block Strat HSS diagram. In that diagram the black and white are tied and connected to the switch. However, again, the pickup has 4 wires plus the bare shield wire.

What has been stumping me is that the pickup has only 3 wires plus the bare shield wire. The PUP is stock from a Korean Bullet. I had not seen a 3 wire connection. Could not find a diagram with a 3 wire PUP.

On the tone pot, I thought abour running the tone pot to the volume. that would control all 3 PUPs. However, I am leaning towards running it to the switch to control when the 2 singles are engaged or when the neck PUP is engaged. Not certain which I prefer.

Thanks again for the help. Finding 3 wires when I expected 4 was a bit of a puzzle.

Later,
Norm
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normj wrote:
Jim,

Thanks for that diagram. That is one I had not looked at yet. Its closer than the ones I have. I did see over at Seymour Duncan about tieing off the red and white wires. That was also shown in one of two Fender diagrams I have been studying. The Squier Standard HSS shows the red and white tied. In that diagram, the pickup has 4 wires plus the bare shield. I have also been studying the Big Block Strat HSS diagram. In that diagram the black and white are tied and connected to the switch. However, again, the pickup has 4 wires plus the bare shield wire.

What has been stumping me is that the pickup has only 3 wires plus the bare shield wire. The PUP is stock from a Korean Bullet. I had not seen a 3 wire connection. Could not find a diagram with a 3 wire PUP.

On the tone pot, I thought abour running the tone pot to the volume. that would control all 3 PUPs. However, I am leaning towards running it to the switch to control when the 2 singles are engaged or when the neck PUP is engaged. Not certain which I prefer.

Thanks again for the help. Finding 3 wires when I expected 4 was a bit of a puzzle.

Later,
Norm
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Glad I could help.

Again can't speak for the Fender pickups but as I recall, those Duncan's with the 4 wires and the ground shield, one of those 4 wires is also a ground and it just basically get's tied to the shield so you still really only have the 3 wires to work with. Double check a schematic but I think that's the way it goes. My guess would be that the Fender with the 3 wires just doesn't have the extra ground...the shield is the ground and that's all.

As far as the switch thing goes, I think personally I'd be tempted to just run the tone to all three pickups...if for no other reason it's the easiest way. IF there was a specific reason for running to one (or two) pickups...say you had a need to roll back the highs on the mid pickup while using it with the neck pickup, yea...ok I can see that but otherwise there's nothing really wrong with one tone control...tends to work pretty good in fact (that's the way my old Kramer is set up...2 buckers, 1 volume, 1 tone).

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