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no, you cant use a no load pot as a blend, it’ll just kill the sound in the no load position...
wire the strat up like this:
If you don’t like it it’s not too far from standard that it can’t easily be put back.
You can (actually should) use a no-load pot for the blend if you’re using it as a simple parallel link - as long as you want it to be standard wiring at 10 and blended at 0. Just connect the centre and CCW terminals to the two pickups.
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Shop around though, you may be able to find them a bit cheaper.
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Worth it tho!... the other alternative is to pop into your local guitar shop and raid their parts bin.
For the shedocaster build I blagged a crl switch for a quid!... just needed a bit of cleaning!
axesrus do compleate parts kits if you look on their website. Fairly certain there will be others on here that do the same @Alegree etc...
buy a loom or just the bits in one go!...
edit**** just seen this...exactly what you are after.
https://www.axesrus.co.uk/Stratocaster-Wiring-Loom-with-Neck-Blend-p/stypeloomblend.htm
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im sure there are other places... ask @gavin_axecaster if he can do you a kit, just noticed he had the crl 5 way for a fair bit cheaper than £20!!!!!
I assumed that axisus is wanting a Tele-like neck and bridge blend, which needs to be parallel and is much simpler. You can do it with a normal pot, but you always get a tiny bit of bleed-through of the other pickup. A no-load pot will fix that.
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in that case just buy buy an Oak Grigsby six way switch and do away with the blend circuit!...
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This is why switches are all getting shitter. People grudge paying the cost of good ones so manufacturers drop quality to cut costs. Applies to everything; everything is shit. We are all doomed!
I can buy at proper wholesale prices from the US on CTS, CRL etc, but then I get silly carriage costs and have to hold punishing amounts of stock.
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Look at the bulk prices from mouser etc and you'll see they charge as much or more than I do for a single CRL switch. They are supposedly official distributors!
The profit margin on CRL, CTS is bugger all these days. It's not even worth going direct to the manufacturer - CTS no longer take new customers in territories that have an official distributor (and the distributor price is more expensive than I can buy from other unofficial sources) and the minimum order quantity from Electroswitch to make a bulk purchase worthwhile is 1000pcs of each switch and they have just increased their prices significantly too!
Don't get me started on Orange Drop prices and availability since CDE bought the brand!
TLDR - quality electronic components are only going to get more expensive.
Example ... my trade price on a CTS 250k premium pot 'trade': £5.56 ... retail £6.95 my profit £1.39
CRL 5 way Strat switch trade: £14.36 ... retail £17.95, my profit £3.59
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