I'm wanting to mod the middle tone knob to control the neck pickup (it's too dang bright, hurts my ears). I've been reading online different ways to do it... I think I'm going with the method or soldering a single wire between two terminals. Unfortunately, I haven't found any actual pictures with instructions. Does anyone have any pictures or clear instructions on how to do this? I'd hate to take everything apart, put it back together, restring the guitar and have the dang knob not work anyways. Help!

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2007 Fender Stratocaster Roadhouse - Olympic White
2005 Ibanez GRX20Z - Jewel Blue
Fender Frontman 65R Amp
Fender Frontman 15w
Digitech RP50, RP80

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I'm not sure I'm understanding your question. You say you want to, "mod the middle tone knob". Do you mean the middle pot on the pickguard or the pot which currently affects the middle pickup? And once this question is resolved, my next one is, what do you want the jumper wire to do?

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neck pup too bright ? thats a new one on me , turn the treble and mid on your amp down a bit or even the tone control on the guitar , it might help

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I was under the impression that it was the Bridge pickup that had no tone control. The only 'jumper wire' method I've heard of lets the middle pup tone knob ALSO control the bridge pup, alternatively, the middle pup tone control wire on the switch can be moved to the only other open tab on the switch so that it controls the bridge pup instead of the middle pup.

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You are partially correct. The lower tone pot can also be dedicated to just the bridge pickup whereas the upper tone pot can be jumpered to where it will affect the middle and neck pickups. Naturally, either of the tone pots can be wired to where they will affect only one of the pickups or all of the pickups as well.

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Whoops, I meant to say bridge pickup... my neck pickup is very well dialed in, so I've pretty much been using the 1st and 2nd positions in everything. Just wanting to make the guitar a little more versatile. Martian, I want the pot that controls the middle pup to also control the bridge pup. I think there is a way to completely switch it over i.e. leaving the middle pup with no tone control, and one mod so that the pot controls both the middle and and bridge. Anyone has a succinct explanation on how to do this??

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2007 Fender Stratocaster Roadhouse - Olympic White
2005 Ibanez GRX20Z - Jewel Blue
Fender Frontman 65R Amp
Fender Frontman 15w
Digitech RP50, RP80

"If the house is rockin', don't bother knockin'... come on in."

-Stevie Ray Vaughn

Sure do.

The first is for the lower tone pot to control the middle and bridge pickups. The second if for that lower tone pot to control the bridge alone where the middle pickup has no tone pot.

Open up your Strat and flip the pickguard over. With your switch to the left of the pots, you will notice that on the right side of your switch, there is only one unused terminal.

1. Solder a jumper wire onto that unused terminal and then to the terminal directly below it; that's it!

2. Instead of jumping a wire from the unused terminal to the terminal below it, simply unsolder the wire at the terminal below it and resolder it to the unused terminal; that's it.

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Nice, thanks for the explanation. That sounds simple enough. Now... is it worth it?

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2007 Fender Stratocaster Roadhouse - Olympic White
2005 Ibanez GRX20Z - Jewel Blue
Fender Frontman 65R Amp
Fender Frontman 15w
Digitech RP50, RP80

"If the house is rockin', don't bother knockin'... come on in."

-Stevie Ray Vaughn

You're welcome.

Only you could answer that question.

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