How To Wire A Stratocaster The Right Way

"Eric Johnson wiring", "Peter Green mod", "I wish daddy didn't pass out on the cake on my 9th birthday capacitors"... so much regurgitated internet crap that gets passed-on from one idiot to the next, so much room for improvement with little to no effort... holy shit I really need to go to bed...

Anyway, this is how you wire a Strat the right way. So please join me into a deplorable mumbling of simple words as I show you how to end up with a guitar that has 5 well-balanced pickup selections for your pure bliss, all of which can enjoy the delights of a proper tone control.

I hope this brings as much joy to your family as it has brought mine.

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Stalk LonerJuan here:

[senselocke]

The moment you started calling the pickguard an asshole, I knew this video was gonna be a winner =). It's not a valid experience with a Strat if you're not bleeding from a few somewheres by the end of it. You also show, without really bringing attention to it, just how quickly the solder heats up and cools off, how short of a time you keep the iron on the wire, and when you might need a touch more. As somebody who just learned all this a year or two ago, seeing someone do this withouth really getting stressed or nitpicky really helps to show how the flow, timing, movement is supposed to go. It can be quick and simple, just like you showed, to swap a few wires, and seeing it in action can be really useful and helpful. So thanks!

[ltfringr]

Great video, this will probably save me a lot of headache when I mod my wiring. Love the swearing too.

[kervinrodriguez]

Thank you for this video, I’ve been very unhappy with my strat bridge pickup . Too bright . I’m definitely going to do this before buying another pickup

[fshg]

Good job excellent English and your wiring instructions are fast man your very fast working person with the wires and that’s talent so use that talent and start selling the electronics pre wired for guys and gals that can’t follow instructions. You may make big money and you heard it here first God Bless you for helping me see the proper way to wire it!

[georgecovetskie]

What I did was add a little switch between the two terminals you just put together. This way it jumps or not any time you want.
ONLY on a lower end Strat. Dont do that on your quality guitar.
Even though you can replace the pick gaurd if you want to make original again.
Have fun ! Great video, short and right to the point.

[leanspo]

I'll keep it mind when it comes the time to buy a Strat 😁

[qreecpy]

Moved the tone to my bridge pickup and like it...gonna move my other tone from neck to middle pickup. I never find the neck pickup to be too bright so why have a tone on that one?

[unabonger]

I have the tone 1 controlling the neck and bridge together, tone 2 middle only. I thought this was good because on a strat the neck and bridge pickups are never used together, and I can blend neck or bridge with the middle with complete independence. What do you think of this mod?I don't even remember how I did it, but it was easy.

[NordBandit]

I just bridged all of them to one tone-Control poti. So i got one Tone and one volume. My personal plus of that Option is that u can remove one poti and put the volume poti more away from the Pickups. So u dont turn turn the volume down accidentaly by Heavy strumming. ( happened alot before)

[kritothegreatest]

Master tone master volume blender pot to the next pick up

[Diogenerate]

Can you link to a diagram of this? I am new to this but I can tell this config is probably the best

[Franco-qore]

no entiendo por qué recordaba este video en español, Argentino para ser exacto

[famlitfamskitt]

Whats with the tin foil. I saw another video where some dude covered the whole back of the pickguard with like a copper sheet? I dont know anything about the electronics of guitars

[curtrod]

wire bridging bridge and neck is better?

[nimitz]

Makes you wonder why they don’t just come like that anyway.

[Αδιάφθορος]

W T F was it so
Thank you, what is going through everybody's minds not having a tone where indeed you need it the most?

[josephsolvason]

i have this guitar and i think i may have a ground issue. I tried checking for continuity between the metal stem of the pickup switch (just under the rubber grip, the stem that is visible even when the electronics compartment is closed). there is no continuity there. Does that indicate an issue?

[bcltdinc.]

A lot easier to just bridge 6, 7, 8 and leave the wires stay where they belong

[DougHinVA]

Nasty language is not 'cool' or 'hip' or useful. Skip it.

[mgsands]

Talk talk, go step by step, by with the talk talk. Just go from jack, to pickup to pick up to pick up.