New Partcaster on the way!Advice needed

[VintageGuy]

I have an old silverburst Squier strat and im in the process of making it a Jake E Lee strat clone (sort of)

I will sand it and paint it white,install a new warmoth neck, a custom black matte pickguard from warmoth with neck/bridge humbuckers,1 tone/1 volume and a 3-way switch.

There are 2 problems I have:

1)The Squier has a totally basic tremolo but i want to block it with the tremol-no....will it fit?

2)Wiring!Im going to buy a SD JB and a 59 set, 2 pots 500k (one for vol,one for tone) and a 3 way pickup selector but WHAT else i need for the wiring to work besides the aforementioned?

from what i see in a SD wiring diagram,i don't need anything else.....right?(sorry this is my first time!!!)

thanks in advance and sorry for the lengthy post!

 

[poeman33]

There are many variations in Squiers, depending on where they are built. So it's a tossup on what will and will not fit.

My guess is that you will have no trouble with the tremol-no.
Hopefully the neck pocket is standard.
The body may be a little thinner than standard, so you may have to deepen some of the routs a hair to make the pickups and the electronics fit.

 

[VintageGuy]

thanks for your reply poeman!The body has the swimming pool rout so there is no problem with that

 

[poeman33]

thanks for your reply poeman!The body has the swimming pool rout so there is no problem with that

I was thinking more depth.

 

[VintageGuy]

ok thanks a lot.I need only one capacitor for the tone pot right?

 

[poeman33]

I suggest you go to Seymour Duncan's website for wiring diagrams. It is very comprehensive.
Wiring Diagrams - Seymour Duncan