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=== Since you’re already swapping pickups, and since position 3’s series neck wiring is very “weird Strandberg-specific,” I usually recommend: ===

➡️ Rewire Position 3 to “both full humbuckers (bridge + neck in parallel).”
It’s:
* Useful for ALL genres
* Even volume
* Works with high-output or vintage-output pickups
* Sounds good with Bare Knuckle, Suhr, Seymour Duncan, Strandberg OEM, etc.

You lose the “Strandberg experimental tone,” but you gain a very musical, familiar, keeper sound.

If you want something slightly more modern/Strat-like:

➡️ Do both outer coils instead (split + split in parallel).
That’s the most used coil-split blend on modern H-H guitars.