Where do I solder?

[Colestrat]

I have a strat pick guard with an s-1 switch that I want to try in my strat all I have to do is solder the output jack wires to the guard I just have no clue where to solder. There are some old solder points on both tone pots but I want to get it right the first time.

 

[charlie chitlin]

'At's a nice-a spaghetti!
On a regular Strat the terminal for the outer sleeve goes to ground and the terminal for the tip goes to the center lug of the volume pot.
I'd bet this is the same...just a guess, though.

 

[Butcher of Strats]

'At's a nice-a spaghetti!
On a regular Strat the terminal for the outer sleeve goes to ground and the terminal for the tip goes to the center lug of the volume pot.
I'd bet this is the same...just a guess, though.

I cant even SEE the volume pot!

But yeah, find the lug on the volume pot with no wires attached, which would be the center lug.
That goes to the hot or tip lug on the output jack.
One lug is already soldered to ground and the other to the five way switch.
Normally...

 

[Caffiend]

Zooming right in it looks like (if you ignore the circuit board on the back which is purely switching) the S1 is still set up as normal here. It looks to have been mounted in a fairly conventional way, the lugs are generally facing the direction of the switch. The rightmost of the lugs looks like it's soldered to the pot body so will be traditional earth. The centre lug looks like it's previously been soldered but currently unoccupied so will be the hot output the jack cable needs.

To be completely honest, pretty much no matter what you do with a Strat wiring wise the only real difference with this (output from volume pot to jack) is going to be whether the volume pot is set up for a left or right handed use. In electrical terms, the volume pot is a 'potential divider' and has two ends and a takeoff wiper in the middle. The takeoff more or less has to be output, and one of the ends input and the other ground.