https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:15:28 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324188 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:20:45 +0000 http://www.fralinpickups.com/stratstyle.asp
I'm not sure which ones are in the strat because they were already installed when i bought it.
A graphtech nut and a callahan bridge.

All this was done by the previous owner but it sounds really good. I don't know how much these mods improved the sound because I never played the original but the pickups do sound great. I really only play humbucker guitars and these pickups are the only reason I still own a strat.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance AKFlyingV https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324188 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324154 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:13:45 +0000
I also put Fender/Schaller locking tuners on my Strat. They help it stay in tune so much that I haven't bothered to completely block the tremolo.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance mmoncur https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324154 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324150 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:44:36 +0000
There is a website, whose name I can't remember right now (maybe another GNer can remember it) that has dozens of wiring diagrams for basically all the variants that Fender has produced.]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance greybeard https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-324150 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-35432 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:31:25 +0000
I have a Mexican strat that I got a couple of years ago. It plays really nice, and I enjoy it. I even have a buddy who owns a Les Paul and and a MIA strat, and he agrees it plays very well. I've made some mods to it, including replacing a lot of the electronic components, stuck a Duncan JB jr in the bridge, blocked off the tremolo (I never use it) and it also has the heftier tremolo block (when did they start putting those in the MIMs? And making them all with medium-jumbo frets?) So far I've left the stock middle and neck pickups, though I've considered swapping them out for the noiseless single coil pickups when I save up a bit. I've also made some cosmetic changes.

Anyhow, when I did some of this work I was using a wiring diagram from Seymour Duncan, and it just occured to me that I do not have a tone capacitor wired into the pots, which I see on the diagram. What I've read is that tone caps tend to "roll off" high frequencies for a warmer, bassier tone. On the diagram, I see a .022 cap between the tone 1 and volume pots. If I put one of these in, which pickup combinations will it affect, and is there any other benefit or other information you guys could tell me about caps?

Also, while I'm on the subject of this guitar, what would be the next most effective upgrade I could make (besides the pickups) - tuners?]]> Guitar Repair and Maintenance handelfan https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-repair-and-maintenance/strat-mod-question/#post-35432