Rewired my Tele's

[tubenit]

The guitars are hollow bodied Teles. One with quilt maple, swamp ash back and a rosewood fretboard & the other with flamed maple, PrimaVera back and Pau Ferro fretboard. I built the bodies myself and the necks are Warmoth compound radius.  

I've tried numerous types of wirings in my guitars over the last 20 yrs & feel like I actually have something useful for playing with a band where you need a variety of sounds from clean/clear to boosted fat warm.

I tend to play rhythm with my Tele's in that 2 (or 4?) position meaning between the bridge and middle pickup. And when I play lead, it's usually the neck or bridge.  Keeping that in mind, I wanted a quack sound in that notched position with humbuckers. And of course, I did NOT get that with this wiring ........... however, I got a more compressed percussive sound that was clearer and somewhat brighter. That worked out just fine! It's sort of a faux quack tone.

The Tele with the strat looking pickups has DiMarzio FastTrack 1 in the neck and mid and the Chopper in the Bridge position. I installed a parallel/series DPDT for each of the neck and mid pickups.  The schematic is the S-S-S one below. The schematic doesn't show the DPDT for the neck but it's wired the same.

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With the Tele with the humbuckers and strat type in the middle ........ I have  StewMac Golden Age neck pickup (nice pickup, BTW), then a FastTrack1 in the middle and an AirClassic (DiMarzio) in the bridge.  On this guitar I did the parallel/series switch on the middle pickup and simply did a simultaneous coil cut on the neck and bridge buckers. Ironically, the parallel FastTrack1 and the coil cut humbuckers balance out very nicely in volume with one another.

http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/tubenit/?action=view&current=guitars.jpg

Again, I did not acheive a true strat quack on the guitar but it has that clearer more compressed percussive tone that's nice for rhythm.

So, both guitars now have a nice rhythm tone and moving the 5-way switch to neck or bridge gives a nice boost with a fatter warmer tone for lead.

Nothing new really, but thought I'd share the results.

with respect, Tubenit

[tubesornothing]

tele - middle pickup?  humbuckers?  Wow, I am like soooo old school.   http://www.pinrepair.com/vgi/fender/51_nocaster_1.jpg


OK, all my crap aside, thanks for posting the diagrams.  I have a buddy who loves humbuckers, thinline body and wants to have a strat quack. We'll experiment with this and see what we get.