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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on December 11, 2010 at 3:19pm

Ok, I'm confused, I have a goofy strat clone whatever I built and I used a five position switch. Neck, Neck and Middle, Middle,Middle and Bridge, Bridge. Sorry, I can't be of more help but it sounds like your connections are wrong to the switch if it is a five way. Maybe you need some jumper wires at the switch. That's my guess.

http://www.electric-guitar-info.com/five-way-switch.html

Don

 

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on December 11, 2010 at 3:49pm

I'm sorry, Don - you are indeed correct.  I meant to say 5- position, not 3.  I have to kinda ease the switch into a kinda halfway in between one of the  positions to get it to work.  I'm flummoxed.

Don Thompson said:

Ok, I'm confused, I have a goofy strat clone whatever I built and I used a five position switch. Neck, Neck and Middle, Middle,Middle and Bridge, Bridge. Sorry, I can't be of more help but it sounds like your connections are wrong to the switch if it is a five way. Maybe you need some jumper wires at the switch. That's my guess.

http://www.electric-guitar-info.com/five-way-switch.html

Don

 

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on December 11, 2010 at 4:01pm

I used a diagram like my link for wiring mine. I'm sure there are many out there on the net. I don't remember a jumper but I can look at mine. So if you tap on a pickup with small piece of steel can you tell which pickup it is? I'm sure others here have much experience with the five way than I but I'll do what I can.

Don

this diagram looks closer to what I used......sorry it's been a few years.

http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/pdf_temp1/stratocaster/01000...

Knotlenny said:

I'm sorry, Don - you are indeed correct.  I meant to say 5- position, not 3.  I have to kinda ease the switch into a kinda halfway in between one of the  positions to get it to work.  I'm flummoxed.

Don Thompson said:

Ok, I'm confused, I have a goofy strat clone whatever I built and I used a five position switch. Neck, Neck and Middle, Middle,Middle and Bridge, Bridge. Sorry, I can't be of more help but it sounds like your connections are wrong to the switch if it is a five way. Maybe you need some jumper wires at the switch. That's my guess.

http://www.electric-guitar-info.com/five-way-switch.html

Don

 

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on December 11, 2010 at 4:04pm

Bad switch?

 

AFKAM

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on December 12, 2010 at 8:07am

I'm pretty sure the switch is good, because I already changed that.

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Permalink Reply by David L. on December 12, 2010 at 8:36am

 

I have wired a few strats and found 2 main types of 5 way switches - one as per Seymour Duncan http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php...

and one as per Artecsound wiring diagram on page 10 http://www.artecsound.com/wiring/wiring_book01.pdf 

I have also come across some others in a box of spares I bought which I couldn't work out what was going on.

Have you got a photo of the wired switch you can post?

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