Hey folks,
I have a Tele project ready for wiring, but I'm going to get some Barden-style pickups for it which are humbuckers in a single coil shape. They will have the ability to be tappable which should make it a very versatile axe. Anyone have any info, diagrams, advice etc for this sort of thing?
This will be a present for our guitarist in Magnolia Jones - he's turned into a Tele nutter. 😊😊
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
Hey Bass Guy, welcome back to the forum good to see you chime in now and then.
Need a bit more info, will the bridge pup be coil splittable or the neck and bridge pup ?
Presume it's the bridge pup only.
sure Weirdy has posted many options on a thread before, have a gander in this section wiring pickups. Think I found a thread about 5 or 6 different tele wiring layouts on the weekend
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
These are the pups I'm considering
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Calibrat...ter_p_149.html
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
ok so looks like you will be splitting neck and bridge pups.
You will have to work out whether you want one push pull pot to split both pups - volume or neck pot
Or you could split each separately so maybe volume splits neck pup and tone splits bridge pup.
Have fun with the wiring !
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Oo fun.... 😮😮😮
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
BG there are so many options available. But in my opinion if you have both volume and tone pot being push pull you can have neck and bridge pups splittable independantly in case the player wants to go with full humbucker straight to split neck or whatever other combination
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I would avoid GF gear, it isnt any better than than the pups in our kits...
There is always a workaround for glitches, mistakes and other Guitar building gremlins.....
Hey BG, here is a lengthy thread Weirdy did on different tele wiring
http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=3022
have a look at the 3 way with push pulls
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Splendid, chaps! I'll get cracking.
"Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out."- Jaco Pastorius
Some think that the GFS Lil Punchers can be a bit meh when split, not sure about the hot version, but I'd suggest looking over some reviews. As an alternative, instead of splitting them you can switch the coils from series to parallel which keeps some of the oomph but thins them out and adds a bit of clarity. I wired my vintage version Lil' Punchers as series/parallel rather than split. They sound ok and give a good range of sounds... but they're very fussy about pickup height (either too quiet or too boomy) and I've never been entirely satisfied.
If you want a specific wiring layout just shout.
Last edited by WeirdBits; 11-03-2016 at 05:20 PM.
Scott.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
