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scottyg.
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 Posted - 07/10/2004 : 18:41:56
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I want to put a Texas Special neck pickup into my Mexican Telecaster. Problem: existing pickup is connected with only 2 wires- a white one, and the black ground. But the Texas special has 3- white, black and yellow. The enclosed diagram shows only the yellow and ground wires- no white. Someone here knows what to do or what site to check out. Any help es mucho appreciated.
Also, the Texas pickups and "Noiseless" Fender pickups are different, but are the Texas pickups also noiseless, no-humm pickups?
Thanks folks.
Love,
Scott.
(I read here all the time, but only post in emergencies such as this.) |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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Posted - 07/10/2004 : 19:39:48
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If you go to www.mrgearhead.com, click the Fender logo on the left, Guitar/Bass Wiring and Switching Diagrams at the top and find the James Burton Standard Telecaster wiring diagram, it uses the Texas Specials.
I'm not sure how not having a three wire bridge pick-up will affect that, because I really can't tell you what kind of pickups the Texas Specials are.
I don't know if they are humbucking. I think that one of the wires may be the pick-up cover. Why three wires on the bridge pick-up? No idea.
Your welcome! Big help I am. |
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hammerhands
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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Posted - 07/11/2004 : 17:53:21
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I did see a few more references out there, they still are a bit confounding, but I will give you an opinion or two.
The James Burton uses a 3-way switch. I have put some time into studying this for putting together a frankenstein-telecaster and I was absolutely certain a four-way switch was the way to go. I have fallen in love with the "out-of-phase" (which I'm told has nothing to do with phase at all) sound a cheap telecaster gets in the middle position.
According to Angela Instruments http://www.angela.com/catalog/guitar-parts/tele.html the Texas Specials are single coils with a ground wire for the pick-up cover, which still does not explain the extra wire on the bridge pick-up, but some websites (http://www.globetown.net/~andrew/GTR/B1/index.6.html) suggest there may have been a change in the design since introduction.
I worked up a nice wiring diagram for the four-way tele switch (based on someone else's work). It shorts out the unused pick-up and double connects when in series. I can't find the source of the original design here is a new diagram of the same thing, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/arothstein/tele_4way_mod2.gif, the only difference for mine is the order, and it shorts the lead adding a connection to ground from the open tab. 1. Lead only, Rhythm shorted. 2. Lead & Rhythm parallel. 3. Lead & Rhythm series. 4. Rhythm only, Lead shorted.
Top side: 0 to lead hot, 1 to 2, 2 to volume, 3 to bottom 0, 4 to ground & lead ground.
Bottom Side: 1 to rhythm hot & to top 1, 2 to 4, 3 to top 0, 4 to ground, 0 to rhythm ground.
It says cover to ground (ground being the back of the volume pot.
pos 1: lead hot->volume; short rhythm.
0 1 2 3 4 pos 2: lead hot->volume; ground rhythm.
---------- pos 3: lead hot->rhythm ground; twice.
1 2 3 4 0 pos 4: short lead; ground rhythm.
I'm going to use the Fender-Noiseless, connecting them out-of-phase should be useless because the coil is a stacked humbucker, wound in one direction then the other, but I have been hoping that someday someone would come out with a six position switch, they have a five position super-switch.
Here is an interesting idea with the five-way super-switch http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/triffic/index.php. I've read that parallel-and-out-of-phase is pretty weak, this has series-and-out-of-phase. |
Edited by - hammerhands on 07/11/2004 17:56:33 |
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scottyg.
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Posted - 07/12/2004 : 11:57:52
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Hey thanks a bunch for the links! That was kind of you, Hammerhands. The wiring specs are helpful. take care,
scott. |
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