Fender Strat Input Jack Wiring

A detailed step by step on wiring your stratocaster input jack and ground wiring.

Fender strat input jack wiring. The ground lug attaches to the case. If you do not find the list or diagram for your specific instrument on this page we may still be able to furnish you with a hard copy from our archive. The switch inserts a 33k 33k voltage divider which dumps half the guitar audio signal to ground just like a standard fender low input jack. The extra threads give the nut a bit more to bite on.

The contents of this diagram in whole or part are copyrighted and published for. Typical standard fender stratocaster guitar wiring with master volume plus 1 neck tone control and one middle pickup tone control. Strat style guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 2 tones. A stereo jack can be used for stereo wiring or to enable onboard active electronics when a 1 4 mono plug is inserted.

Photo 3 shows the wiring for a stereo open jack and photo 4 is a stereo barrel jack. Most of our older guitar parts lists wiring diagrams and switching control function diagrams predate formatting which would allow us to make them available on this page as pdf files. Take orange wires hot. Soldering station solder type my preferred type hakko fx888d 23by digital soldering station fx 888d fx 888.

Tie white green wires together ground and solder to volume pot. Choose the long thread jack for guitars and basses that have a thick top or control plate. Jack 1 the high gain jack has a 1 meg 1 000 000 ohms resistor wired across the jack from the hot tab to the ground tab and the grounded lead of the resistors is bent back and soldered to the middle tab the switch the switch is grounded on jack 1. With the switch open you have the high input and switch closed you get the low.

A mono jack is suitable for most guitars. The primary lead is the short lug that connects to the longer bent flange and the long lug is the power battery switch that connects to the short bent flange. If the socket has been circling round in the housing it could have mucked the way the wires are laid in there.