well i was really bored yesterday, went to guitar center for a hot rails pickup.
i was in the experiment, tear it down and put it back together mood.
so i got my am std strat, took the pg apart removed the std pickups, and installed the texas specials neck and mid, and bridge hot rails.
@ 1st thought, i didnt like the hot rails. i had a out of phase midrange quack. i looked at the diagram seymour duncan have for installations.
ok green and bare to ground and black to selector, and red and white soldered together and put aside. ok.
i thought , man i suck at this. then i read the sd site and had a little disclaimer back ot the page. if combining with fender pickups, then green goes to selector and black to ground, oh duh.

it has a bluessy , hard rock tone. think jeff healy tone, and or albert cummings tone.

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008

Lol! Sometime wiring guitars with mixed pickups can be interesting. I do not know how many time I would button up a project and plug her in to find one position sound thin or out of phase. sure enough, checked the paperwork and this pickup was reverse wound (like TX specials) or black is hot on one and red on the other, etc. Nothing worse than finishing a wiring job, just to turn around and have to pull it apart and fix it!!!

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pulling it apart and after thinking your done is frustrating.
but i guess thats how we learn. trial and error.
actually what i left out, out of embarrasment was, at first had the strat $@! backwards.
neck was bridge and bridge was neck. i looked at the wiring and schematics, but tired after work, you know how that goes.
my excitement got the best of me.

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008

I feel your pain.

At least you didn't learn the highly valuable lesson I did the last time I was soldering pickups into my guitar.

I learned there is a right end and a wrong of the soldering iron one should grab.

don't ask but yes, the scar is still with me, very deep nearly 3rd degree burn on my right index finger. Ouch.

You guys are too funny. I will NOT tell you all the dumb stuff I have done..... But the standard 5-way strat switch, when you solder it up, IS backwards...... And to make things worse I have dyslexia! (or as I say "lysdexia!!!!")

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lmao

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008

Here's a couple of wiring tips: After you have soldered the jumper wire which joins the two sides to the pickup selector switch and then it to the volume control, the easiest way to remember which terminal in descending order on either side of the switch is for what pickup (and/or tone pot) is in alphabetical order:
Bridge
Middle
Neck

Also, before buttoning up any Strat type pickguarded guitar after a wiring job, continue to leave the guitar flat on your work area. Place the pickguard on the body where it should go and put one string back on; this string doesn't even have to be tuned to proper pitch. You can then plug into an amp and test the phasing of the pickups via the pickup selector switch (and the rest of your wiring for that matter) where just in case you have to make some changes, all you have to do is get that one string out of the way and flip the pickguard up and over again to take appropriate remedial action.

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as always, martian, you always have helpful tips. i should have done that, i have a small amp that use for such mods. excitement got the best of me, i was so confident i did everything right, lol.

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oogway, kungfu panda 2008