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Sny reason why this would not work for my rear routed strat if I want to do away with the tone pot? What I would like to do instead is make one of the pots 250K for use with a single coil. Should work shouldn't it?

so you want two buckers and a single, or one single and one bucker? either one would work, you just have to wire it correctly, assuming you have the space on the guitar for it. also, you might find a 250k pot on a humbucker too mellow, in which case you might want to change pickup mags or something to let the highs in. that's all personal taste, though.

Kapo_Polenton wrote:http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wi ... c=2h_2v_3w

Sny reason why this would not work for my rear routed strat if I want to do away with the tone pot? What I would like to do instead is make one of the pots 250K for use with a single coil. Should work shouldn't it?

By the diagram you posted (2 pickups, 2 pots) and wired that way, it'll will work fine. (Im assuming by what you've written that one of the pickups is gonna be a single coil with a 250k pot, and the other pickup will be a 'bucker with a 500k? Nice idea!!).
Obviously the resistance of the pots and pickups goes out the window if both pickups are used at the same time, but we all know that already.

Exactly. Doing A Lynch-ish scaled back approach. Forget splitting coils on the bucker as they tend to sound too thin and shrill anyway. Besides, I will just build another strat with single coils to get the ritchie blackmore vibe as I want this one to be a shredder. SH-5 in the bridge and a single coild of some type in the neck (naybe HS-3). As I currently have a tone and vol, I figure just have two vols and not bother splitting between them. I have a 3 way fender style switch in there now so i suppose it would sound like $hit in the middle position but i am quick back and forth. By all reasoning this would work right?

absolutely. depending on the switch you have, you could even wire the middle as a kill position.

anyway, happy soldering! post some pics if you can

Alright, finally got around to doing this. I can post some pics tomorrow if people are still interested. The one question I have is my 3 way strat switch. It essentially has one common pole to which the + goes to. (common), the middle is clearly going to be a kill switch. neck position goes to the 250k, bridge goes to the 500k. In the diagram above from the Seymour duncan site, there is a ground connection on the switch. Am I wrong to assume that strat switches (mine is the older style) are NOT grounded? Total brain fart here.. been soo long since I did anything with this guitar that I don't really remember how it was hooked up. You figure I would have taken a look...