Standard strat full tone wiring harness - How to

[@gregcaudill2511]

Recently bought a made in china strat knock off just for a cheap source of parts for my cigar box guitar. The wiring on that thing was so messed up that only the neck pick up was working kinda, I had to start from scratch. I followed this wiring and everything worked like it should, in fact it sounded pretty good for what it is. I looked at several videos but this one was by far the easiest to follow and understand.

[@buddyboyudon]

Brilliant! Dont need words! Been trying for so long but never worked there are many different wiring diagrams This one was the one! Works a treat! Thanks!

[@azimovwatts6425]

Actions speak louder than words. Thank you, great video!

[@neaituppi7306]

I was kind of hoping the pickups would be included.

[@ERIC-65]

First I thought that it is a bit of an overkill to bridge two lugs of the switch with a yellow wire and give it a shrinktube, but then I noticed that its a great instalation for rediciding later for the other variant without burning your fingers ! Well done !

[@mkvc111]

Nice, clean, and to the point. Well detailed job.

[@SirCarrington]

Great angle and quick workflow. Thanks for uploading this, it's an excellent tutorial video.

[@GuyJohnson1957]

Finally someone on youtube that makes a good demo vid!!! Thank you!

[@garrybullard4586]

+Guy Johnson I totally agree! I enjoyed it myself...

[@stanmarsh6208]

This video help me loads I done my first strat and it sounds great. Thanks for a great tutorial

[@unicornspoop8334]

Hi George, yes mate, this will work with just about any strat style wiring with both mini and full size pots, CTS and Alpha. Thanks for you post dudue.

[@johnnyopk]

Worked flawlessly, thanks!

[@mainsail1235]

Nice work! Only one comment: you should either insulate the capacitor lead that is connected to the live terminal of the pot, or change the placement with shortened leads. The way you wired and bent it (at 8:12 of the video), that lead can contact the pot case, which can cause a short to the ground. It looked like you actually shorted it (or came very close) in the video.

[@8corsican]

Really excellent - thanks for taking the time to make the video - really helpful!

[@unicornspoop8334]

the black and white wires from the volume pot go to the output jack and the second black wire goes to the ground point on the term claw or body ground screw.

[@unicornspoop8334]

Hi wife the ground are the long black wires coming from the back of the pots, 1 goes to the jack ground lug and 1 goes to the Tremolo claw.

[@unicornspoop8334]

+wifey hi it just takes all the left over crap that acumilates from the circuit and dumps it hamlets lyrics into a part of the harness or hardware that terminates it so it cannot cause hum and crackle. I'm sure there us a more scientific way if saying it but that's the short and curlers of it.

[@RigoesAmorrigotovar]

First I was like Wtf!!! No words!!!! But after working on my Strat I watched it again and I was like ohhhh ok...thanks

[@sixfoursoul2538]

I am not understanding why the yellow wire from 1st leg of 1st tone pot, is soldered to the 1st leg of the bottom tone pot.. none of my strats are wired like this.

[@garrybullard4586]

Great vid man! I really enjoyed it! Keep up the good work.....

[@alledgedlytrue4871]

When someone cares enough, this is what happens. You, I like!............excellent!

[@Arcturian1111]

Awesome job. Fyi... The last three lugs on the export switch are for the 3 pickups. Positive obviously.

[@koll789]

This mod works and only needs two changes from standard wiring. Very easy to do and only took 10 mins. This gives you ........ BRIDGE - T1 BRIDGE & MIDDLE - T1 MIDDLE - no tone control MIDDLE & NECK - T2 NECK - T2.

[@Scorhos]

If salvador dali back to life as a guitar tech, this way may be his way.

[@Ro-Bucks]

I just got a nice fender from a pawn shop, they didn't have am amp so I took it anyway. I seem to have the bridge and middle pickup on all the time and if I switch to the neck pickup I get nothing. I think I see the problem now. Thank you!

[@muziekvoorfeest]

second question in the way i saw it if possible , and i solder the orange 0.22 cap on the first (middle pot) tone pot is it wise to when having an humbucker in the bridge position (pearly gates) that the vol pot is 500 and both tone pots 250k ?

[@Scorhos]

My switch have,with the pickup entrances, 7 entrances in total. Yours have 8. Can i do it?

[@MrRutherFordium]

after 3hrs of searching... finally i found you!! you should be Tittled as ROCKn'ROLL Doctor!!! hahaha Thank you so much dude!! keep posting! specialy how to wire 2 humbucker and also the 2 single coil with neck humbucker! i really want to see how to do it! hahaha thank you!! (I actualy broke my volume potentiometer.. haha!) PS: pls put the items that you have used specialy the electronic parts! Thanks again! ^_^

[@ivandrimal5783]

I would probably put heat shrink tubing on the capacitor wire as well so it can't touch the potentiometer ground. It can cause mischief.

[@sitthisakdiary740]

Thanks a million for your help.

[@musicminds2013]

Can u say what kind of value and type of this capacitor?

[@johnjones4935]

Such a helpful video. Soldering a bunch of wires with absolutely no reference or commentary about what they are or where they go. Brilliant. :/

[@merc1110]

excellent work in deed, thanks for the soldering lesson.

[@daviddee1709]

Thanks Chuck it wored really well !!!!

[@wesleywoodland1903]

BTW thats "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson. Awesome piece

[@benjaminlansing991]

Can I still use this method if I'm installing a humbucker pickup in the bridge? I'm all new to this and am currently in the progress of a project guitar.

[@salvatorej.quaglieri7792]

My neck pickup tone is not working, and middle and neck position is out of phase (very quiet) how can I fix this. Update: also it seems to be ok when the pick guard is not screwed onto the guitar, maybe one of the wires or something is touching the inside ground cavity? I have a Squier classic vibe and the fender 5 way I put in it is a little too close to the side of the cavity and maybe it's touching it. Also since the only new pickup is in the neck and it's a Texas special, the other two are stock, so maybe if I replaced the middle with a Texas special, that out of phase problem would go away?

[@mikemike4444]

Hi, I have a question, where will you solder the neck/mid/bridge pickups and thier ground??,

[@danieldoenut]

you solder the hot leads to the corresponding lugs on the switch, and you solder the ground wires to the back of the volume pot.

[@musicminds2013]

Those tone pot are linear type?

[@yourunclehank1]

I see that this config uses only one cap Is that why the yellow wire jumps one pot end to end instead of across like the green in the website diagram? Which setup gives the widest tone on all pups?

[@Mathias9n]

@wifey In the configuration of the video, it uses 1 tone for the neck 1 for the bridge, or 1 for neck and middle and 1 for bridge, or just 1 master tone ?? I want the second tone to be controling the bridge pickup (example 2) Thanks !

[@Mathias9n]

wow man i perfectly understood that, thanks for the fast reply !

[@lashanaswanson7302]

How to replace black and white wire on input jack for fender stratorcastor

[@lashanaswanson7302]

Wireing for input jack for fender stratorcastor

[@Arcturian1111]

Great video, it worked for me. Flawless. Nice.....

[@GeroLubovnik]

What's the tune in the early part of the vid? Very pleasant and cool sounding.

[@Bluescobra]

Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

[@GeroLubovnik]

Thank you

[@victorbenedicto]

Ozarkcacti can you please show us how to do it . well be glad to watch your vid. thanks

[@lemooos100]

thats a real tutorial :) thanks for the upload!

[@unicornspoop8334]

hi no the wire colour is just help identify the terminal connections, this is especially usefull on very complicated wiring jobs. but you can use any colour wire you like.

[@unicornspoop8334]

hi. yes mate you can, but if you want to coil split you will need to use a push pull pot on one of the tones.

[@ivandrimal5783]

If you don't heat up the solder with the ground well, a cold junction will form and it will randomly cause mischief. For the ground wire at the springs, you need a slightly better soldering iron (150-200W) and not just 40-60W. Or does he want to remove the spring holder and only then solder the wire.

[@Scorhos]

Why is needed such powerful iron solder? I saw a other luthier just sanding the claw with a lime to dust the chrome.

[@GondozaSulo]

What is the purpose of the cap? Treble bleed? Forgive me, not so good with this type of thing yet

[@Scorhos]

Treble bleed is always put in the volume pot. .

[@unicornspoop8334]

Can you hear any string sounds at all or is it just a constant buzz?

[@muziekvoorfeest]

hi great vid , but what i dont understand is that i see a lot of wiring diagrams in where the firt tone pot has a orange drop cap of 0.22 soldered over it instead of in this vid the bottem one.

[@Scorhos]

This .22 thing is responsible for a mod called treble bleed. Is soldered in the volume to cancel the lose of treble that happens when we low the volume. Is optional. But is a lovely thing to add in a strat.

[@jblevins1991]

Mike it sounds like you might not have everything grounded or even a cold solder joint.

[@holmerz]

Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@MrOdil6]

is there any differences between the wires? (yellow blue green red....?)

[@McGuire40695]

No, from the looks of it, they are all the same sized wires, but with different colors. Usually, people different colors in wiring so they can easily identify certain things in the circuit.

[@ivandrimal5783]

Error! The grounding wires should come from one point, even at the connection of the shielding of the strings and the bridge. All GND wires should come from the volume potentiometer. Otherwise, it can cause problems with hum. It is also a good idea to run a shielded audio cable from the volume potentiometer to the Jack output connector.

[@WildExpeditions_info]

which one is the tremolo ground? and which two go to the jack input? and where do i solder the pickups to? iv just done exactly what you have done, very well done video btw :) just need the last parts, thanks

[@Scorhos]

The pickup entrances are the 1 to 3. In the 1 you put the bridge , in 2 the middle and in 3 the neck. The jack ones should are the ones with the isolator.

[@1cleandude]

Good video very simple to follow. Are you aware that each pot is grounded via the scratch plate? Therefore,you don't need to run grounds to each pot. Less work and it makes it a cleaner look! Still good job thanks for your time.

[@innocentoctave]

I think it's unwise to rely solely on the scratchplate to ground the pots. I've checked continuity across that foil from various places and found it intermittent. It only takes one pot to be ungrounded and you have problems. Also: relying purely on the foil, it can be difficult to see where the problem is, or to correct it without adding a separate ground lead. So why not just do it from the start?

[@themadcookieman]

Great video!

[@johnbroussard7523]

Excellent video

[@jeffparryncc1701]

wheres part 2?

[@aaron-cv5cd]

Is the cabel color important ?

[@gwarbong]

no , it just helps make sense of things,

[@MarkMediona]

Awesome music background

[@roxl.3197]

Scusa ma quanti watt è il saldatore??

[@sunshineagainandagain]

Is this a three way switch?

[@unicornspoop8334]

@@sunshineagainandagain it's a standard 5 way blade switch.

[@markstevens4307]

I imagine I'd have to lay off my regular coffee before I attempted this???

[@miketisdel7238]

ha i got a guitar that ant working i strum it and get no sound but when you plug it in it hums what could that meen

[@gwarbong]

wire on the input jack broke off , dirty connection ,, or someone wired it wrong , best pull it apart....

[@aaron-cv5cd]

What are these tiny litli green thinks

[@musicminds2013]

Capacitor

[@threeguysfromnowhere]

Thanks Chuck

[@FUNKSTER67]

thanks mate nice video...

[@XxproadvancedgamingxX]

This made my guitar buzz

[@unicornspoop8334]

Hi, Lemooos100, No problem mate, all the best!

[@sarahroggenkamp999]

thanks bud

[@poppysworkbench6508]

Cliffs of Dover was played on a Gibson ES-335. Your strat is not going to sound like it no matter how you wire it.

[@coandc]

First if all, asinine comment. Secondly totally wrong Eric Johnson often played a strat for cliffs of Dover live.

[@vcc1965]

david coan Mark is right on the ES-335 thing. Eric says so himself in an interview. I know for you hardcore Fender guys that might seems like sacrilege. As far as the Strat not sounding like the 335, that can be done by the great players with the right guitar who are capable of being able to use different instruments and you wont be able to tell which one they are playing. Jeff Beck is one of them. He can play a Les paul and it would hard to tell if he was playing a strat or not. I believe on his blow by blow recording he is primarily using a les paul. I understand some people are going to prefer one over the other due to feel and tone etc. But I think anyone limiting themselves to being Gibson only or Fender only players are making a big mistake. Both are great choices. I own both and a ton of famous players play and record on both as well.

[@coandc]

vcc1965 That's not the point, the OP said that he never used a Fender which is just not true. If you search "Cliffs of Dover" on KZbin the first live performance of Eric Johnson he's playing on a Fender.

[@vcc1965]

david coan I guess i must be missing something, I didnt see where his post said that he never used a fender. Just that the original recording was on a 335.

[@coandc]

So you read "Cliffs of Dover was played on a Gibson ES-335" as "Cliffs of Dover was originally played on a Gibson ES-335." I didn't I took it exactly as it was written.

[@curtrod]

EJ!

[@johncolvin1864]

I know how to solder. Show me an ACCURATE schematic.

[@derekowen9098]

If you would solder correctly you wouldn’t have to snip shit

[@johnkohlman2428]

His soldering needs a little work.

[@DougHinVA]

don't play the record of Eric Johnson to a video of wiring a Strat.... there is no point.

[@unicornspoop8334]

Are you even a guitarist?

[@Mountainrock70]

This is NOT the way to solder at all.

[@Mountainrock70]

youtube search "Guitar Repairs- Proper Soldering Technique" if you don't want to follow links.

[@Cobyboy_x]

Thanks!!

[@Cobyboy_x]

It does matter. If you don't solder in a proper way, your conections won't work and the sound will be affected

[@Mountainrock70]

wifey has got to be a troll. Nothing else would explain the stupidity!

[@Mountainrock70]

Correct, but the single path is affected by the quality of the solder joint. High frequency is greatly affected by cold solder joints. youtube search "Guitar Repairs- Proper Soldering Technique" and watch that video by webmasterman!

[@alangriff1]

Not a great lesson in how to solder. Most important is to "Tin the iron" eg. add a small amount of solder to the iron before even attempting to solder as to make a good heat transfer, and keep the wires/items from over-heating. Damage can result making an expensive repair.