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maybe if you had something specially made it might work
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In my opinion, you just answered your own question. Your guitar build might well end up sounding interesting but there is a bunch of reasons why it is not going to properly nail the sounds of a Stratocaster.
In your position, I would rout for neck and centre position Firebird humbuckers.
I’m sure there’ll be a wiring diagram on line somewhere....
A shame as its a lovely idea
This page is pretty detailed.
http://www.redherring-tonebones.com/jerry-donahue-telecaster-wiring-2/
A middle pickup will only be worse because the string movement there is smaller.
If you really want a pseudo-Strat sound from a Tele without the visual intrusion of a middle pickup, the Jerry Donahue wiring is the way to go.
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Its a very simple idea and simply puts the neck pickup electrically out-of-phase with the bridge pickup, but with a bass cut in series with the out-of-phase neck pickup. The bass cut is simply a capacitor. When the in-phase bridge pickup is combined with the out-of-phase neck pickup there is no bass content in the out-of-phase neck pickup signal (which would normally cancel the bass component of the in-phase bridge pickup), hence the combined sound is not thin and scratchy in the way that electrically out-of-phase pickup combinations usually sound. The value (uF) of the capacitor sets the corner frequency of the bass cut filter.
The idea for the circuit is quite old, and it's odd that Fender and Jerry Donahue managed to keep such a mystique around the circuit for such a long time - I think the 'controlled degree of phase shift' BS which they used in their marketing literature has quite a lot to do with that! Anyway, Bill Lawrence has been quoted as saying he used the idea in the sixties, and certainly implemented it in a commercial setting on the Gibson L6S from 1973. That guitar uses a 0.02uF capacitor, whilst Fenders circuit uses a 0.01uF capacitor, so that should give you some idea of values to play with.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
1965's Marauder made it as far as that years catalogue, but never actually made it into production. Four pickups hidden under the pickguard, a Jaguar/offset style body and controls, a Strat trem system, block markers on the neck.....
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
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