Hello; just joined, so first post here abouts! Just a bit of a back story personally; I am a pro player, (I guess semi-pro nowadays, what with Covid and all) and have been playing for about 50 years! So, I'm kinda old? And, I love Seymour Duncan pickups and have them in all of my guitars!
I recently acquired a new Fender Player Plus series, Nashville model Telecaster. (A great new series from Fender!) It comes with Fender 'noiseless' pickups; which I guess are 'stacked' or humbucking style pickups? All in all, they may not be too bad sounding, but they're just not my cup of tea!
I've decide to convert this guitar over to 'vintage' style pickups, (Seymour Duncan of course!). I've already got a Jerry Donahue for the bridge position and RWRP APS-2 for the middle position. Also, instead of the typical Telecaster style neck pickup that this guitar came with, (and I have never liked a Tele neck pickup personally), I've decided to go with a SH-2n Jazz neck Humbucker in this position! I already have a new pickgaurd ready to go, just waiting on a cover for the humbucker.
So finally to get to the heart of the matter; I may need some help with the wiring, (a diagram would be awesome)? Here's what I'm starting with: the guitar comes with a Fender 'superty-duperty' 5-way switch, and a push-pull tone knob! So you can actually get (7) seven different pickup switching combinations!!! The current (stock) switching is: (from the neck end of switch), 1) neck pickup alone, 2) neck and middle, (kind of out of phase, Strat quacky sound), 3) neck and bridge together, typical Tele combo, 4) middle and neck, (again sort of Strat quacky sound, but with a bit more treble), and 5) bridge pick up alone... As far as the 'push-pull' tone knob goes; it just adds the neck pickup to 5-way switch positions 4) & 5), so in 5-way switch position 4) for instance, when you pull up the tone knob you get all three pickups! Clever eh?
What I am hoping to to achieve with this pickup conversion is: keeping everything the same with the single coils, (bridge & middle) and adding (1) coil of the SH-2n Jazz pickup to the single coil positions where the regular Tele neck pickup would come into play. In position (1), I would want the entire SH-2n (both coils ) to play alone! Also if I could continue to utilize the push pull tone knob to engage one coil of the Humbucker that would be a plus!
My thinking is it should be straight forward to install the single coils, but since they are only (2) conductor wired, I might have to add (split-off) the connections for the 5-way switch and/or the push-pull tone pot? The SH-2n Jazz humbucker should be pretty straight forward since it comes with a (4) conductor harness?
What I'm thinking is; the main sounds I would use: (in no particular order) JD Tele bridge pickup, Jazz Humbucker neck pickup, Strat/middle plus JD/bridge, for quacky Strat sounds!
So folks, any helps with ideas/wiring diagram would be mucho appreciated!
Regards: Chuck3
PS: again much thanks for any help in advance! Also, I've included a photo of one of my favorite and most cherished guitars; a March/1997 Fender Custom Shop Jerry Donahue Telecaster model guitar! I'm the original/only owner, and this guitar is finished in 027/Sapphire Blue Transparent Burst, and only (2) of these were made in this color! Interestingly Jerry Donahue has the other one! I don't know if anyone has a copy of the old Fender 'Players' catalog from this era, but these guitars are pictured in it, along with the other Helecasters, players Will Ray and John Jorgensen's, Custom Shop models etc...
I recently acquired a new Fender Player Plus series, Nashville model Telecaster. (A great new series from Fender!) It comes with Fender 'noiseless' pickups; which I guess are 'stacked' or humbucking style pickups? All in all, they may not be too bad sounding, but they're just not my cup of tea!
I've decide to convert this guitar over to 'vintage' style pickups, (Seymour Duncan of course!). I've already got a Jerry Donahue for the bridge position and RWRP APS-2 for the middle position. Also, instead of the typical Telecaster style neck pickup that this guitar came with, (and I have never liked a Tele neck pickup personally), I've decided to go with a SH-2n Jazz neck Humbucker in this position! I already have a new pickgaurd ready to go, just waiting on a cover for the humbucker.
So finally to get to the heart of the matter; I may need some help with the wiring, (a diagram would be awesome)? Here's what I'm starting with: the guitar comes with a Fender 'superty-duperty' 5-way switch, and a push-pull tone knob! So you can actually get (7) seven different pickup switching combinations!!! The current (stock) switching is: (from the neck end of switch), 1) neck pickup alone, 2) neck and middle, (kind of out of phase, Strat quacky sound), 3) neck and bridge together, typical Tele combo, 4) middle and neck, (again sort of Strat quacky sound, but with a bit more treble), and 5) bridge pick up alone... As far as the 'push-pull' tone knob goes; it just adds the neck pickup to 5-way switch positions 4) & 5), so in 5-way switch position 4) for instance, when you pull up the tone knob you get all three pickups! Clever eh?
What I am hoping to to achieve with this pickup conversion is: keeping everything the same with the single coils, (bridge & middle) and adding (1) coil of the SH-2n Jazz pickup to the single coil positions where the regular Tele neck pickup would come into play. In position (1), I would want the entire SH-2n (both coils ) to play alone! Also if I could continue to utilize the push pull tone knob to engage one coil of the Humbucker that would be a plus!
My thinking is it should be straight forward to install the single coils, but since they are only (2) conductor wired, I might have to add (split-off) the connections for the 5-way switch and/or the push-pull tone pot? The SH-2n Jazz humbucker should be pretty straight forward since it comes with a (4) conductor harness?
What I'm thinking is; the main sounds I would use: (in no particular order) JD Tele bridge pickup, Jazz Humbucker neck pickup, Strat/middle plus JD/bridge, for quacky Strat sounds!
So folks, any helps with ideas/wiring diagram would be mucho appreciated!
Regards: Chuck3
PS: again much thanks for any help in advance! Also, I've included a photo of one of my favorite and most cherished guitars; a March/1997 Fender Custom Shop Jerry Donahue Telecaster model guitar! I'm the original/only owner, and this guitar is finished in 027/Sapphire Blue Transparent Burst, and only (2) of these were made in this color! Interestingly Jerry Donahue has the other one! I don't know if anyone has a copy of the old Fender 'Players' catalog from this era, but these guitars are pictured in it, along with the other Helecasters, players Will Ray and John Jorgensen's, Custom Shop models etc...
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