Guitar question?

Question

ok i've got a fat strat( a guitar with 2 singles, one in the neck one in the middle and a humbucker in the bridge) and i want take out the midle single and leave it out but still have everything work. how hard would that be and how would you do it.

then i want to take out the humbucker and replace it with a good seymour duncan. how hard would that be and what would i have to do?

Answer 1

Smart move on that Seymour Duncan at the bridge. The sound will be super clean and more punch to the Fender.

By removing the bridge pickup, simple. Just solder in the same places as the old one.

For the middle pickyp, you will have to short the existing wire so that it connects the front and the back together when the switch is in the middle.

You have a 5-way selector switch whcih will become a 3-way because of the absence of the middle pickup.

Just run a wire form the front pickup to the middle , and the rear pickup to the middle, and solder them to where the middle pickup was. It should work fine.

This looks complicated but is a 30 minute job from the time you remove the pickguard to finish.

Answer 2

you could re route it yourself, but it might be risky

i would take it to a shop, and they will do it for you.