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I'm thinking of changing the wiring on my fat strat heres my idea. replace the 5 way switch with a 3 way. connect cool rails (neck) and fender custom shop (mid) to the three way. Use one of the tone knobs for a volume control for the JB (bridge). This way I could have all 3 pickups active at any time and any combination of pickups.

My questions are is this possible and would switching be too much of a hassle?

It is possible, but I find that set up to be somewhat complicated for live use. In my strat, to have 7 pickup selections, I installed a push/pul pot that would allow me to have all three pickups at the same time or neck and bridge together.

Thanls for tip Benjy.

There's a number of different ways to perform this type of switching configuration, depending on your specific needs and wants. For example, on the Strat-clone in my sig, I have the neck and bridge Cool Rails connected to a 3-way, and the middle pickup on a separate switch. That way I can switch between the neck and bridge like a normal twin-humbucker guitar, or get the quot;notchquot; positions, or all three.

That suits my needs, but you could have any one of the pickups on the quot;extraquot; switch or blend pot. Its a nice setup.

what i was gonna do for my strat is install an on-on switch for each pickup. but that plan fell through.