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I'd have that, stick a middle pickup in it and bingo.
I think I've found my next partscaster.
It's even moved that bloody volume control.
I have considered rewiring through a four way, so that with the switch in the "bridge" position it would be bridge and middle, standard from there on up......not tried it yet though....
However what has worked for me is Fat 50's with a BK Sinner with plate at the bridge, "Standard" Single coils with a Fat 50 at the bridge, rewiring the tone controls so that the neck and bridge have a tone and the middle has none, although I don't use the neck tone control......works for me and I now have three Strats and love them all.....
I've done a few for customers with a three-way switch to give bridge+middle, middle+neck and neck. If you never use the other two sounds, why have them (accidentally) available?
The easiest way to give the normal tone control operation is to use two separate caps, so the tone controls are independent, and connect them directly to the middle pickup and the neck pickup.
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got an old tokai springy sound from around 1980 and an levinson blade texas pro. You need to wire the bridge pickup to a tone pot and get a nice beefy pickup in the bridge. sounds great. The tokai was the only guitar I wished I hadn't sold, and then it turned up on ebay a few years after I'd sold it so I bought it again.
saying that I mostly use the neck pickup (currently BK Irish tours I think in one and some bulldog texas floods in the other).
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For those thinking Partscaster you need not waste your time, Fender have already introduced a model that addresses these problems...
https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/161116304111007-634620--fender-custom-shop-limited-edition-robbie-robertson-last?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuY7ymsCR2wIVg7HtCh0zJgG4EAQYASABEgKnV_D_BwE
I love the way they look & sound, but inevitably after a few months I get the nagging feeling that everything is 2" to the left of where I want it to be & sell it. Only to buy another 6 months down the line.
I've also kept a record of what I've bought & sold plus prices for the last 3 years. I'm £500 up, but that's more luck than good judgement!
Only ever bought one tele and one LP and one 335 and still have all of them
Love the sounds others get from them and Hendrix has some of my favourite tones of all time but can never get that tone to work for the music I play. Although the out of phase ones are awful and if I put singlecoils back in my strat it'll have a 3 way switch so I don't accidentally switch to 2 or 4 by accident. Mines currently just got a bridge humbucker with a single volume and it sounds great. Suspect I'd be better off with a tele tbh.
I've owned a jap squier, jap tokai, strat plus, american special and a burns marquee. I've currently got two strats a partsacaster modelled on a american vintage 59 and a us standard with a one piece rw neck. Keeping both of them as they just scratch my strat itch. I did try a 69 heavy relic custom shop which sounded incredible but was nearly three grand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1EgQYFaOwM