with one push pull you can have the same fonction
on seymour duncan it s the shematic to have 7 positions
5 stratocaster and you can have the bridge pickup on with the push pull with the middle and the neck pickup or the 3
it is the shematic for my jazz hollow (with 1 tone and 1 volume

sorry i don't have see the 3 way

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with only one push pull and the 3 way you can have
neck ;middle; bridge with push off
and with the push on
neck +bridge ;middle plus bridge ,bridge
but if you want the 3 pups you need the second push pull (this position after try is not really cool)

I don't know if you've considered this, but I find strat push/pulls difficult to get a grip of on the pull up. I ended up having to put the knob only about 3/4 of the way down on the shaft in order to get enough space underneath for my fingertips to pull (and now the knob sometimes gets in the way of the trem bar). To me the push/pull is more difficult and not as quick as a flip of a switch. If I were to do another one, I'd use a pushbutton (as on the Deluxe Player's Strat) or mini toggle instead. Just something to think about.

Two ideas:
Ron Eglit replaced his Strat 3-way with three individual mini-toggles-one for each pickup. You can get any combination and it's quick to change on the fly.

Use a 3-way wired like a 2-pickup guitar: 1=bridge, 2= bridge/neck, 3= neck. Have a push-pull pot dedicated to the middle pickup. It can be brought into every other combinatio
Better yet, make the tone control below the Volume a Master Tone for all pickups and substitute a volume pot for the other tone control and wire it to the middle pickup. You can vary the amount of middle pickup you bring in to a combination.

When G & L first brought out the Commanche, it was equipped with split "Z" pickups with each pickup wired to a separate 3-way mini-toggle:
1= treble half, 2=both halves combined, 3=bass half. This produced a mind-boggling number of combinations-and most of them sucked-I know, because I spent a day going through them.
The setup G& L uses today is my favorite. Standard Strat-style 5-way with a mini toggle to get the bridge and neck together. What is not commonly known is that with the 5-way in the bridge position, the mini-toggle brings the neck pickup in at a lower level like a Tele neck/bridge. With the 5-way in the neck position, the bridge comes in balanced-more like a Jag or Jazzy.

Go for it Morphball!
I've never used the middle pickup alone on a Strat going back to '63. Ron wired my early, Fullerton '57 RI with a 5-way.
1= Bridge, 2=Bridge/Middle, 3=Bridge/Neck, 4=Middle/Neck, 5=Neck. It worked for me, and a lot of guys used to look at the Strat to figure out how I was getting that sound.
Funny thing-One of my favorite Strat players-a local guy, Mike Halls plays mostly on the middle pickup and his tone kills!

morphball
The middle position can definitely sound nice;

It is my belief that the middle position alone is THE pickup position for a Strat in surf music. If I had to give up all but one of the pickups in a Strat, I'd keep the middle. I'm convinced that DD mostly used the middle pickup (and in fact in several '60s photos where you can tell where his pickup switch is set, it's usually in the middle). The same goes for Hank Marvin.

The middle pickup is the Strat's secret weapon - do not give it up!

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Thanks Ivan, I totally missed this good advice; it's impossible to ignore Dick Dale's legendary tone, so I'll definitely be sticking with a standard 3-way! (With the 2 push/pulls, so that I don't have to wedge a match in the pickup selector switch, haha.)

Sorry to let this thread fizzle out, I'm still actually working on this... the above diagram is basically unusable, I'll need to update it once I get it right, which I think I finally have it. (So don't use this one!!!) One bit of advice for people like me just starting out with electronics- pots don't like to be desoldered, especially the push/pull type, and most especially the cheap ones. In hindsight, I'd say spend a few extra dollars on genuine Fender electronics, and don't start soldering until you know the connections are right (just make temporary connections with alligator clips). Lesson learned. Hopefully I'll have this project completed this month, I'll keep you posted!

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I have searched a lot these days about modding my Strat and I believe this is the best mod!

Also, there are "no load" blender pots for this mod! Mojo and Acme have these pots. I found the same schem in Mojo's site.

It's also on the Fralin site. A friend does this on all his Strats. I'm going to have him do it to the one I just bought.

Not a bad idea!

I was thinking to use an on/off rotary switch but for the middle pickup. And instead of the classic 5-way switch, a 3-way, like a Tele.

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Hey, why did you treat the guitar like this?

Nice reverb sounds(!) and nice pickguard.
Where did you find it? It's pretty cool!

Are the volume and tone at the place of the two tones of a normal pickguard? Or are they a little bit centered?

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