my first Strat.

[Davo]

Glenn, the lack of bridge tone does drive people to creative solutions...Ive tried a few myself, such as swapping wires on the middle pup and bridge pup.
I found this to be a temporary solution...temporary because when you go to solo you kinda want a lil more heat, with a tone pot there its cools it down and you may as well just switch to another rhythm pup, cause thats kinda what youre doing.
I got frustrated and sought out different ways of taming my bridge pup.

The MOST effective way Ive found to tame the bridge pup...is to set your amp up to the bridge pup. If it gets out of hand tame it with the tone stack...then when you flip the five way to the neck and middle pups, youve got tone pots to shape treble and bass to something desirable.

The mods are easy, but doesnt this make more sense?
Your guitar and amp both will sound better...so will your tone.

I have a "no load" pot on the bridge and middle of my strat, works great.

And its a bright muthalova!  2-piece ash body, maple neck, CS54 pups.  The bridge is wound a bit hotter and Id dare to say it gets into tele country.

[Rickocaster]

Looks a lot like my first Strat. It was a Korean "Squier 2" and was the same color. Wish I still had it. It was a real workhorse.