5-way using a "Superswitch"
Submitted by "Deaf Eddie"

The Superswitch is assymmetrical and quite a bit wider on one side, and so you MAY have to widen your control CAVITY just a tad to accomidate the switch - varies from guitar to guitar. It's a simple job of "scooping out" one side of the cavity, down where the switch's lugs require a bit of clearance.

Unless you have a thinner body lower-end import, the switch shouldn't be too "tall" for the cavity - but if you shield the cavity, make sure that none of the lugs on the switch short out against the shielding.

5-way Craig Anderten Setup
submitted by "Deaf Eddie"

The yellow "C" on the switch indicates the common lug for that pole. Some replacement 5-way have the common at the other end...

As for the cap value, use what you like - a .050mf cap will sound like the "traditional" tele tone control rolled back to "0," a smaller value cap (.020mf, .010mf) will let more high-end out and be less muddy/mellow... I probably would like something even smaller, rather than larger.

Actually, this is a lot like the Fender 4-way Tele scheme, but with an extra "neck pup with fixed rolloff" notch. Cool! BUT! Don't forget, you'll need to "unground/reground" the bridge pup to prevent unwanted buzzing in the series position. Hmmm... Maybe I'll see if I can work this the other way, so that you do the unground/reground on the neck pup - a far easier task on most Teles.

5-way with std Strat switch developed by Bill Lawrence
Submitted by "Deaf Eddie

You will want to insulate the legs of the cap with heat-shrink tubing or a wrap of tape so that it doesn't short out on anything in the control cavity.

Here's Bill's idea: on the two "new" combos, this scheme has a cap in series with the neck pup as a high pass/bass roll-off filter (choke). The effect on those new combos SHOULD be that, when playing the neck pup solo (#5), it drops some of the bottom off the pup; when playing the neck pup parallel/out of phase with the bridge pup (#4), less low-end will be lost from phase cancellation, therefore warming up the out of phase tone. On the original drawing, he calls it "1/2 out of phase" - which is pretty funny to me, kinda like "a little bit pregnant"... As you use a smaller value cap, the out of phase will get warmer, but the neck pup solo will get thinner, and vice-verse.

I've never done the cap-as-a-bass-roll-off idea myself, so it might be an interesting scheme to try. When I wire something out of phase, I usually go for series/out phase, which gets back some of the "oomph" lost from phase cancellation.

Wiring an Tele with a Strat 5-Way switch
submitted by "Unkie Al"