Two Strat Stack Plus pickups and a single-coil-sized humbucker, 5-way blade, push/pull split volume and tone

Parts and values

“Example part” means any part with the same value and lugs will do; the source does not name a brand. “Generic” stands in for an unspecified pickup: check your own pickup's lead colours before you solder.

Specific to this wiring

• Title: 2 STACKS | 1 SINGLE COIL SIZED HUMBUCKER | 1 VOLUME push/pull 3 coil split | 1 TONE | 5 WAY BLADE.
• Legend box as printed: 'With this diagram, one push/pull pot switches all three stacks into single-coil mode. When push/pull is UP all pickups are true single coils. When push/pull is DOWN all pickups are hum-cancelling.'
• Switch lead labels as printed: neck white, middle white, bridge black.
• The bridge red and white run together to one lug on the blade's second row; the neck red goes to another lug on that row, and a third lug on that row is wired to the push/pull's left middle lug. The middle red goes to the push/pull's right middle lug.
• The two push/pull lugs nearest the pot are jumpered together and wired to the upper Solder spot on the volume casing; the two lugs furthest from the pot are empty.
• Neck and middle black and drain, and the bridge green and bare, go to the upper Solder spot on the volume casing, which also takes the ground wire to the bridge.
• The volume's outer lug is bent onto the casing under the lower Solder spot, which is wired to the tone's Solder spot and to the jack sleeve.
• The source does not number the blade's lugs or positions; the lugs are mapped by what they do (bridge, bridge + middle, middle, middle + neck, neck). The second pole's lugs are mapped so that the legend holds (see the terminal mapping and limits).
• Legend: the grey Solder spot marks the location for ground (earth) connections. Jack: Tip (hot output); Sleeve (ground). The inner, circular portion of the jack.
• The tone cap is printed '.047 cap'.

Connections

In soldering order: grounds first, then the switch, the pickups and the signal path.

What each position does

Not simulated: this circuit is drawn for reference only.

• The sheet prints no pot values; 250k stand-ins are used.
• There is no three-throw push/pull: the '3 coil split' is one DPDT push/pull whose right pole grounds the middle red directly and whose left pole grounds the blade's second-pole common, which reaches the bridge red & white in positions 1-2 and the neck red in positions 4-5.
• The blade's second-pole lugs are unlabelled and mapped by function: the reading that reproduces the legend (the lug next to that pole's common is live in positions 1-2, the last lug in positions 4-5). The published Everything Axe references read the same blade drawing's second pole the other way round; under that reading this sheet would ground the bridge and neck links only in positions where those pickups are off, contradicting the legend.
• The legend's 'all three stacks' wording does not fit this sheet's two stacks and one single-coil-sized humbucker; it is quoted as printed.
• The on-board component drawn across the bottom-coil pads of each Strat Stack Plus (no value printed) is not modelled.
• The single-coil-sized bridge humbucker is modelled by a generic four-conductor humbucker; hum cancelling and phase describe the generic models.
• Which shaft position grounds the push/pull's commons follows the usual push/pull behaviour (pulled joins the middle lugs to the lugs nearest the pot); the legend agrees that UP is the split setting.
• Pickup resistance is not specified, so no numeric meter readings are given.

Before you solder

• Identify every lead on your pickups against the source's colours.
• Title: 2 STACKS | 1 SINGLE COIL SIZED HUMBUCKER | 1 VOLUME push/pull 3 coil split | 1 TONE | 5 WAY BLADE.
• Legend box as printed: 'With this diagram, one push/pull pot switches all three stacks into single-coil mode. When push/pull is UP all pickups are true single coils. When push/pull is DOWN all pickups are hum-cancelling.'
• Switch lead labels as printed: neck white, middle white, bridge black.
• The bridge red and white run together to one lug on the blade's second row; the neck red goes to another lug on that row, and a third lug on that row is wired to the push/pull's left middle lug. The middle red goes to the push/pull's right middle lug.
• The two push/pull lugs nearest the pot are jumpered together and wired to the upper Solder spot on the volume casing; the two lugs furthest from the pot are empty.
• Neck and middle black and drain, and the bridge green and bare, go to the upper Solder spot on the volume casing, which also takes the ground wire to the bridge.
• The volume's outer lug is bent onto the casing under the lower Solder spot, which is wired to the tone's Solder spot and to the jack sleeve.
• The source does not number the blade's lugs or positions; the lugs are mapped by what they do (bridge, bridge + middle, middle, middle + neck, neck). The second pole's lugs are mapped so that the legend holds (see the terminal mapping and limits).
• Legend: the grey Solder spot marks the location for ground (earth) connections. Jack: Tip (hot output); Sleeve (ground). The inner, circular portion of the jack.
• The tone cap is printed '.047 cap'.
• Use a small amount of solder, heat both surfaces, and hold the joint still as it cools. Lead-free solder may have a matte finish.

Ticks are kept in this browser only, as a reminder. They are not a check of your joints. New to soldering? Read the soldering cheat sheet.

Check before plugging in

• Knob down: in each blade position the meter across the jack reads the full pickup or pickup pair selected.
• Knob up: the middle red reads ground in every blade position.
• Knob up, blade in position 1 or 2: the bridge red & white read ground and the neck red reads open; in positions 4 and 5 it is the other way round.

Measure across the output jack with a multimeter on its resistance range. No exact readings are given where the source does not specify the pickups.