Help! Strat wiring assistance needed please.

fretfinder

So this set of Suhr pickups is ready to go in my bitsa. Can anyone tell me how to wire it in? I know I need an earth wire soldered to the trem claw but where does the other end attach? And how do I wire the jack socket to the switch and/or vol/tone controls? I’ve got three short pieces of cloth covered cable which I hope are all I need to complete the job. I hope it’s not extra complicated by the fact that the five-way is connected to a push-push switch on the bottom tone control. Many thanks in advance for any help. 

https://i.imgur.com/wmBoZul.jpg

Funkfingers

That combination of components presents numerous possibilities. It might help to be informed what function the push-pull switch performs. It will definitely help to have a few more views of the selector switch from different angles.

Conventionally, the signal leaves the volume pot from the central terminal. The overall ground leaves the volume pot from the terminal that is already permanently connected to the volume pot chassis.

fretfinder

Funkfingers said:

That combination of components presents numerous possibilities. It might help to be informed what function the push-pull switch performs. It will definitely help to have a few more views of the selector switch from different angles.

Conventionally, the signal leaves the volume pot from the central terminal. The overall ground leaves the volume pot from the terminal that is already permanently connected to the volume pot chassis.

Thanks for that. Do these pics help?

https://i.imgur.com/4RIM4D0.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/GJ0PdsS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ATsI52D.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mLL88tp.jpg

ICBM

The wire to the trem claw and the ground from the jack both go to the back of the volume pot, and the hot from the jack goes to the middle terminal of the volume pot.

But before you do that, the volume pot is a mess and needs sorting out. There appears to be no connection from the ground terminal to the casing, and there is a black wire which appears to go from the casing to the middle terminal which is completely wrong.

Remove the black wire first, then bend the ground terminal back to the casing - use pliers, so you *bend* the upper part of it, not just push the whole thing back which can strain the connection to the track - and solder that cleanly. If you don't have a powerful enough soldering iron to solder to the casing, move the black wire to the ground terminal instead and solder the claw wire and jack ground to that.

The pull-switch on the lower tone control also looks bent. It might still work OK though.

fretfinder

ICBM said:

The wire to the trem claw and the ground from the jack both go to the back of the volume pot, and the hot from the jack goes to the middle terminal of the volume pot.

But before you do that, the volume pot is a mess and needs sorting out. There appears to be no connection from the ground terminal to the casing, and there is a black wire which appears to go from the casing to the middle terminal which is completely wrong.

Remove the black wire first, then bend the ground terminal back to the casing - use pliers, so you *bend* the upper part of it, not just push the whole thing back which can strain the connection to the track - and solder that cleanly. If you don't have a powerful enough soldering iron to solder to the casing, move the black wire to the ground terminal instead and solder the claw wire and jack ground to that.

The pull-switch on the lower tone control also looks bent. It might still work OK though.

Many thanks for that. Which is the ground terminal on the volume pot. And on the jack which is the ground and which is the hot? Thanks again.

ICBM

fretfinder said:

Which is the ground terminal on the volume pot. And on the jack which is the ground and which is the hot? Thanks again.

The ground terminal is the one which is nearest to the camera in the bottom two pics and next to the old solder on the casing.

The ground on the jack is the one in the middle, and the hot is the one at the side.

fretfinder

ICBM said:

fretfinder said:

Which is the ground terminal on the volume pot. And on the jack which is the ground and which is the hot? Thanks again.

The ground terminal is the one which is nearest to the camera in the bottom two pics and next to the old solder on the casing.

The ground on the jack is the one in the middle, and the hot is the one at the side.

Many thanks.