Adding The Bridge Pup to the Mid Tone

[guitarzan13]

EDIT: READ MY SECOND POST....UNUSUAL WIRING LAYOUTI have just purchased a Deluxe Players Strat. Like the older Strats, the bridge pickup has no tone control. I know that you can add a jumper, but I also found a site that said that you could use a .0047 cap as the jumper to not kill so much of the highs. Will this work? Here is the link:
http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/simplebtone.php

[Twin Reiver]

I just did this to my Robert Cray, but what I did was do the Jimmie Vaughan wiring: tone on bridge, no tone on middle. It sounds great this way and it could not be easier. You just move one wire from one post to the other on the 5-way switch. It takes longer to unscrew the pickguard than to switch the wiring.

Go to the wiring diagrams on Fender.com and compare the wiring for the Robert Cray signature to the Jimmie Vaughan signature. Check out the 5-way. That is the only difference, and the middle pup sounds much better with no tone than the bridge pup. Very usable.

[Nub]

Here's an easy way to have the neck & middle pups on the first tone control, and the bridge pup on the second:

http://soundlogic-usa.com/c38.html

[weiner71]

here is the one that has the neck pickup on the 1st tone pot and the middle and the bridge on the second.
http://www.acmeguitarworks.com/pdf/W...rat_Modern.pdf

[viking]

Go to Seymour Duncans site , and use his diagram. Ive used it on 3 or 4 Strats , and it only involves soldering in one extra wire. Takes the very top out of the bridge pu , a good thing IMO.

[guitarzan13]

Thanks guys BUT..... I opened it up yesterday and found this layout..

http://www.fender.com/support/diagra...000_02APg2.pdf

What is up with this???? This is NOT the normal layout and now I have NO clue.....Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where does the jumper go?......if I put it where the mid tone connects....won't that make the mid pickup ON with the bridge pickup all the time?(when the bridge is ON)

[Hoodster]

+1 on leaving the middle pickup wide-open and using the second tone control for the bridge only. This way results in the optimal quack in the number two bridge/middle position.

[Brent Hutto]

Originally Posted by Hoodster

+1 on leaving the middle pickup wide-open and using the second tone control for the bridge only. This way results in the optimal quack in the number two bridge/middle position.

See, that's the only thing standing in my way. I would love to have a tone control on my Robert Cray bridge as it's by far the pickup that needs some treble cut the most. But I love, love, love the way it sounds on #2 and I wouldn't want to mess that up. So you're saying Twin Reiver's suggestion of the Cray-to-Vaughan one-wire change will accomplish that goal? If so I'll do it this weekend.