Favorite type of pickups/electronics route in a Strat body?

hbs

Swimming pool, hum-sing-hum, or sing-sing-sing?

Tho I don’t have one @ the moment, my favorite route would be a swimming pool route. It seems that that kind of route would be the least hassle when putting a loaded pickguard on. IE: No channels to have to feed the pickups and wires into.

The most I have right now, tho, are Strat bodies routed for hum-sing-hum, which is better than sing-sing-sing, but not quite as easy as a swimming pool route.

When I used to go to the Fender Forum in the early ‘00s, some people would wonder if having a sing-sing-sing route would be better for tone.

I think most concluded that the route that a Strat body had had no bearing on tone, that a body with a swimming pool route could be as toneful as a sing-sing-sing routed body.

Which is cool, because I think a swimming pool route would be the least hassle.

hbs

Another thing I like about a swimming pool route and a hum-sing-hum route over the sing-sing-sing route is you can put humbuckers in if you want to, with no further routing required.

fuzz

Routing might have some effect on attack/sustain but I'm guessing in an A/B it's probably not enough to care. So unless you're trying to really minmax then I'd go swimming pool for the same reason, ease of swapping stuff

hbs

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