I’ve started thinking about build #2! Yep, getting in early while the TL-1 Telemaster is curing…

The plan for this one is a bit different. I’ll be ordering a JM-1 kit from Andy, but getting a maple neck to go with it. I’ve got a couple of ideas around some shape modifications (because I can’t help myself!) but we’ll see how that goes.

The more interesting thing with this one is what I plan to do with the electronics – and I’m very much a rookie in this space so there will be lots of questions.

I’m planning to use just the humbucker in the bridge and a single coil in the neck. Both pickups will be wired directly to their own volume pots and I won’t be using any tone pots. Where the third pot sits on the control plate I’ll be putting a second output jack – yep, two output jacks, each one wired directly to their own pickup. Where the switch is on the upper horn I’ll put a single toggle switch (bridge on, both on, neck on).

The idea is that I’ll be able to use each output jack to a separate amp. I realise I could just use a splitter box to send the same signal to two amps, but I want to capture the characteristics of each pickup individually.

Working out how to do the wiring for this will be a challenge but I’ve started poking around to find some basic diagrams. I have found one bloke who did something similar but was able to have the one of the jacks service both pickups unless the second jack also had a plug in it in which case the pickups were kept on different paths. Something about using a Switchcraft #12A jacks rather than the stand #11 one – I’ll look into that a bit more.

Interested in anyone’s thoughts as it’s still an idea in gestation…