Stratocaster DIY: Soldering Lead and Ground Wires

So you just bought a new Stratocaster and you want to change the pickups. This is a step by step guide to changing your Stratocaster pickups! In this episode we're showing you how to solder lead and ground wire!
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[@steveclark7736]

If your going with stock Fender Strat pots beware that their newer American Pro series uses a double tap tone pot for their HSS config if you wanna do a coil slips. I have yet to see any pickup manufacturer go into splitting on a double tap.

[@mpexus]

These videos are really valuable information so thank you... but as a pickup manufacturer I cant understand how in plain 21st Century we are still soldering components like if we still lived in 1950... I dont get it at all and please dont use the excuse soldering lasts longer beucase that is the most useless reply one can give... you dont solder anything in your car when you need to replace a light... and any car get more trepidatioin in 30 seconds than any guitar in their lifetime. Make it all solderless, Active have it why regular non Actives do not?

[@outbakjak]

Because there's all this old school "vintage is best" obsession in the guitar world. The industry is EXTREMELY resistant to change. I mean pickup manufacturers are making and selling pickups identical to what they made 60 years ago and charging a premium for it, Fender with their BS "relics" that cost a life savings, it ultimately boils down to consumers being sheep and not only are they not demanding change, but they buy into and even feed the illusion that the way things were done 50 years ago was best, which is MIGHTY convenient for pickup/guitar manufacturers because they don't have to R&D new designs, manufacturing processes/equipment, connectors, they don't have to innovate like most industries, just keep making reissues of ancient tech and convincing us that it's the best there is. There's companies selling capacitors and resistors made in the Soviet Union or made as a knockoff of such components and charging $40+... IT'S JUST A CAPACITOR, if it measures at the same capacitance then it doesn't matter what it's made of or where or when! Sorry but the guitar industry is damn silly

[@NelsonRodriguez_]

Far out peace from California

[@DubulusOne]

Whomever set up the knobs and pickups put the bridge pickup as the shortest wire

[@elenka.svaliva2]

So I can soldering all three wires on potentiometer together? On to the one point?

[@Mr.Nabil.Belhaj]

My question is about soldering the ground wires from the pickups to the volume pot, why not solder one wire to the top of the pot then solder all the grounds to that wire or even use like those speaker connectors, so that is not messy and to reduce the risk of overheating the pot and melting the plastic inside, because this is exactly what happened to me once. Does this make any deference ? Thank you in advance 👍🏻

[@Mr.Nabil.Belhaj]

It would be nice if you don't mind answering my question

[@outbakjak]

@@Mr.Nabil.Belhaj I don't believe that there would be a difference as long as all of the connections are solid and flowing in the same direction. I think that's a great idea to replace all that messy solder and wire jumble on the back of the volume pot with a solderless ground cable connector. I think I'll steal this idea and use it

[@Mr.Nabil.Belhaj]

@@outbakjak it's yours buddy, anything to help a fellow guitarist. I really hate the idea of soldering all the ground wires on the back of one pot, it's messy and you risk burning the poor thing or even degrading it with heat. I always wondered why there isn't a small plate or washer screwed to the body where all ground cables are soldered to, it makes no difference connection wise as long as it's a closed loop that dumbs the signal to the ground via the jack 🤔 right

[@outbakjak]

Seymour Duncan getting pwned in the comments 😂 anyway I'm just here to point out that you said the pickup with the longest lead wires would be the bridge pickup, shortest wires would be the neck, but that is completely backwards in a strat, the next pickup is furthest from the electronics and therefore needs the longer wires

[@abpccpba]

Why don/t you use a multimeter to confirm each wire instead of assuming you are correct.

[@hillarylarson4780]

Maybe cause most people who would watch this video don’t have one.

[@pleximanic]

A good example of how not to solder.

[@Thomasdgolden]

I agree. It’s pretty sloppy.

[@pataki2666]

If it works it is fine.