Do any of you use the blender pot mod in your Stratocasters?
For those of you who don't know what I'm referring to, a blender is simply a control that allows you to mix the neck or bridge pickup into the signal with no additional hardware with any standard Stratocaster.
In the neck (5) position, it blends in the bridge pickup. In the bridge (1) position it blends in the neck pickup. You can add as much or as little as you want. I find this great for warming up the bridge. In positions (2) & (4), you have the option of turning on all 3 pickups and mixing the balance between each setting.
Your middle tone control becomes a "master" control which works in all 5 positions. I find this mod far better than the vintage wiring and gives you a greater variety of tones for basically the cost of time and effort.
Here's a great diagram explaining how to perform this simple mod. It literally takes only minutes and is 100% reversible.
http://electron.tailfeatherz.com/c21.html
I've done this to my "Marilyn" Strat and absolutely LOVE it! I'm planning on doing the same mod to the rest of my non-S1 equipped fleet.
-tremoloman