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In this article, we will walk you through the process of wiring a guitar with 3 single coil pickups, 1 volume, 1 tone, and 5 way switch. Wiring a guitar is not that difficult if you know what to do and have the right resources to refer to. This guitar wiring diagram is common in most Stratocasters and I have included a wiring diagram of a stratocaster below.
Bill Antonitis had never carved wood when he bought a chisel set from Home Depot, printed a stencil, and cut a rune into the top of his first guitar kit. He also turned spent shotgun shells into control knobs, dropped magnet-mounted LEDs into the f-holes, and found out mid-build that a semi-hollow has no control cavity.
Byron Stafford is 80, lives in the mountains of northeastern Arizona, and has been building guitars since 1956. He wrote us this piece on wood, patience and abrasives, illustrated with photographs of his own builds from 1958 to this year.
Peter-John V. drew the entire top of our semi-hollow kit in colored pencil, straight onto bare flame maple, with nothing removed and nothing painted. He sent us the full run of photographs and video, so here is the build in order, from the first outline to the finished artwork.
Paul M.
