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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on March 11, 2017 at 8:22pm

It depends a bit on how many combinations you want, if you intend to coil split the buckers, a 5 way won't give enough options, but fine if you use them as humbuckers always, if you choose to go the 3 volume route, i'd suggest putting diodes in the hot wire of each pup to counter leaching back of signal, the attached file may be some help===https://www.strat-talk.com/threads/the-stracciatella-3-volume-w-varitone-modification-incl-video.134058/

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Permalink Reply by James "Jam" Ruddell on March 11, 2017 at 9:45pm

I was thinking about ;bridge ,neck ,combined , combined with piezo and then just the piezo on the 5 way .

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on March 11, 2017 at 10:11pm

That would work. Wire the piezo for position 1 on the switch, then a humbucker for position 3 and position 5. That would give you: 

#1-Piezo    #2-Piezo with bridge humbucker   #3-bridge humbucker   #4-bridge & neck humbuckers   #5-neck humbucker

Or you could do 3 toggle switches for off/on of all 3 pickups/piezo.

I would suggest 2 piezo wired in parallel and use 500k pots with the piezo's and pickups.

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