This article assumes that you know how to read wiring diagrams and can understand what they’re telling you. There are no assembly lines at this company, which has been making pickups for more than 30 years. Known for their excellent dynamic range and clear tone, Lollar pickups are made in America, by hand. This easy reference explains which wires go where, and includes illustrations that will make the instructions simple to follow. Whether it’s single-coils, vintage P90s, or modern humbuckers, we have you covered. This opens up even more possibilities.This installation guide will help you set up any type of Lollar pickup. In the next article, we’ll look at what they really mean – an even more flexible four-pole switch. This two-pole switch is actually not quite what people usually mean when you hear them refer to a “super switch”.
This gives us at least one active tone control in all positions on the switch. The other thing we’ve done is change the middle pickup tone control to a bridge pickup tone control. But now, the bridge pickup is active in positions 1, 2 and 3, the neck pickup in positions 3, 4 and 5, and the middle in positions 2 and 4 only. You can see that our yellow wires are still the same – connecting the common contact of both poles to the volume control. Perhaps it would be nicer to replace that middle position with a Tele-like sound – the neck and bridge pickups connected together. Many players find the middle position on a Strat – where only the middle pickup is active – doesn’t get used very much. The neck and middle tone controls are connected as normal. We connect our volume control to both common contacts (yellow wires in the diagram), and then use the contacts on the switch to give us our five standard Strat pickup selections. So to wire up our standard Strat switching scheme with this switch, we can use the following setup: The two sets of five contacts are the switchable ones. The two outermost contacts (closest to the bottom of the image) are our common contacts. Here’s what our switch looks like in real life: We now have two identical switches connected to the same physical lever, but not electrically connected to each other. We address this familiar problem with a familiar solution – adding another pole to the switch. But this gives us a familiar problem – we’ve now connected all the contacts together, meaning that all three pickups are active at all times. With a Strat wired the standard way, we would need the neck pickup connected to the first two contacts, the middle connected to the second, third and fourth contacts, and the bridge to the last two. We have our common contact at the bottom, which can be connected to one of the five switchable contacts at the top. Here’s what the switch looks like schematically: Let’s see how we’d use one to wire up a Strat – for now, we’ll reproduce the standard wiring. Wouldn’t it be nicer if we had a similar structure to the three-way switch – so that we had five switchable contacts, one for each position on the switch. But as soon as you want to change something, the structure of the 5 way switch can become a problem. This works fine if all you want to do is wire a Strat completely as standard. Instead it has three switchable contacts, and in the “in between” positions on the switch connect two of these contacts at the same time. It doesn’t actually have five separate contacts for the five positions. In Guitar Wiring 104, we saw that the standard Stratocaster 5 way switch is an evolution of the 3 way switch.
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