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    Yes. Sorry. I misunderstood and misspoke a little. The extra black wire from lug 7 to tone was there when I opened up the guitar and is not on the diagram. I was confusing this with the jumper wire (white) for some reason while not looking at the diagram.. Brain fart! So, CurtisA, are you saying I should remove the black wire going from lug 7 to tone because it is not doing the job of giving tone control to bridge, anyway? And could also be part of the problem? Also, I'm thinking of replacing the switch for standard fender-type 5-way regardless of whether or not this one still functions. Just to prevent confusion down the road, which I can empathize with considering this is basically a learning project for me and have been plenty confused already. Appreciate the help!
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    I believe the middle and bridge pickups are SD STK stacked noiseless single coils, to the best of my knowledge. The neck pu is a standard fender, single-coil neck pu. The switch is definitely some kind of Schaller but has no other markings on it to further determine which one. As far as the extra black lead on lug 7, I assumed it was maybe a jumper wire to give the bridge tone control but not sure. It was like that when I received the guitar. It is also wired that way in the diagram I posted. Oh well. Thanks for taking a look.
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    Yes, the pots are standard 250k types. Here are some pictures. My camera is terrible so not sure how much help the pics will be but here goes:
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    Yes, I've tested the silent pu at the eyelets and got the expected reading.
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    Yes. The pickups do appear to be functional. Tested with multimeter at the eyelets and also at hot/ground connection points and got the resistance readings I was expecting( about 8k @ bridge and 6.5ish @ neck and middle). When I plug in it's pretty loud when I tap pickup pole pieces with screwdriver on bridge and neck but the middle is silent, even though I am certain that it is wired to the correct lug per diagram with decent looking solder joints, to boot. However, when I put a cable in the guitar's jack and test from there, I get this high reading (11.4k) that doesn't shift a bit when I move through the different positions on the selector switch. With all this, how likely do you think it is that I need to replace the switch? Btw, sorry if I posted in wrong forum and thanks so much for the help.
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    Hi all. An amateur is having a breakdown. I'm working on a project strat, in which I just replaced a dead neck pickup. I haven't strung it up yet but I am getting the same, overly high resistance reading off of all of the pickups now. The pickups are single coil, regular strat pickups that should read in the 6-8k zone. I am testing off of a lead plugged into the jack. Each pu is reading around 11k and doesn't really appear to be changing it's reading as I switch through the pickup settings. Wondering if this might be the selector switch taking a crap. Any ideasand/or help in mitigating my ignorance is greatly appreciated! Thanks everyone.
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