Stupid question, explain Strat pickup positions to me

[velorush]

Yep. That's exactly how I do it!

Not! 🤣

[Jakeboy]

On 1/20/2026 at 5:46 PM, cmatthes said:

Stike may or may not be wrapping up something similar to this for me as this thread gets bounced around… 🤞

And isn’t a maple neck on a chambered hog body a key component of the Talladega?

[tbonesullivan]

I have a love hate relationship with 3 single coil strats. I LOVE the sounds that other players get from them. Clapton. Gilmour. Hendrix. Vaughn. Knopfler. There is nothing like that sound, but I struggle to get the sounds I want out of them. I have no trouble doing the same with HH guitars. I also don't struggle at all getting the sound I want out of a Telecaster. I remember someone saying to me that "you're either a Tele or a Strat person" and it's possible that is true.

I will say that with the closing of G&L, the loss of a company making the "passive treble bass" setup for a Strat type guitar is a blow to the industry. Honestly it allowed me to control a strat type guitar in a way that I never could with anything else. Why the hell would you put a pickup by the bridge but decide that it didn't need a tone control???

[velorush]

I didn't want to start a new thread and this one seems to have wound itself down, so, a follow up on a comment I made early on: I bought a chambered mahogany body on Reverb. I also bought a set of those Hipshot staggered tuners I like so much. The body was in Wisconsin and the tuners were in Philadelphia. The shop owner and I spoke about getting the body out of Wisconsin before the freeze hit - he shipped it right out and it was supposed to be delivered Saturday, just before it set in.

The tuners, as best I can tell, are still in Philadelphia, though I am not really concerned about cold affecting the tuners.

I am hoping the poly on this Mexican Fender body is flexible enough to handle the change in temperature. I might have this by Wednesday and will likely leave it in the box for a day or so in the house. The plan is the eventually refinish the body, but it would be great to get a proof of concept with the Filtertrons before all that. 

If all goes well and we eventually thaw out I hope to put the router to it and post some progress pics.