Strat Blender Mod

It s easy to do.

Strat blender mod. This is sometimes known as the seven sound strat. Lots of strat players are looking to get as many different sounds as possible out of it so the blender stratocaster is a very good mod to enhance your tonal palette. The neck and bridge on setting is very similar to a telecaster s middle position which is something a strat won t. I had to modify my pickguard only slightly to fit the unit into place.

It uses a custom made cts blender pot that acts as a true bypass in the circuit when turned completely clockwise. The guitar at top is a fender ritchie blackmore stratocaster. Once you ve prepped and installed the blender pot it s time to wire up your strat with the new mod. Demo of how the 5 way strat blender wiring harness works along with a set of the 1959 62 hand wound strat pickups.

And you can modify your strat to get the same tones. Easy strat mods that everyone should do. In a nutshell the blender stratocaster has three volume pots one for each pickup but no tone control and no 5 way pickup selector switch each pickup is always on. Back in 2011 fender custom shop released a david gilmour model that used his 7 way wiring and a recessed mini switch positioned between the volume and tone controls of the guitar.

Here s how it works. With the 5 way pickup selector switch in either the bridge or bridge plus middle positions you can blend in the neck pickup. The blender sounds great and gives you more option for sound. The solderless connector was great and easy.

However some mods are good while others are not so good. A strat is a great guitar to mod because there are so many things you can do to it. Blender strat mod strat blender wiring is a unique and simple way to achieve multiple strat pickup configurations and tones without drilling holes for switches and push pull pots. That s because it s a dummy pickup.

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