Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

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tabeck5

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Trying to find a wiring diagram for the following tele set-up:

5 Way Switch
Neck Humbucker 4-wire
Bridge Single Coil
One Volume
One Tone
Blend Pot

Switch Position
1. Bridge Hot
2. N Coil Humbucker + Bridge
3. Humbucker (both coils) + Bridge blend
4. N Coil Humbucker
5. Humbucker neck

Basically the Keef wiring, but a 5 way instead of a 3 way switch... has anybody done this?
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

In selector switch position 3, which pickup is blended and which stays at full output?
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

Not sure, as I understood the concept of the blend when the position is at dead center, there should be no (or very little) resistance on either pickup. I was looking at the Bourns blend pot with the six lugs, but I would want to blend the bridge into the neck. I am sure there are plenty of ways to do this, would it be as simple as connecting the hot from the bridge and neck p/u to the blend pot prior to sending it to the switch?
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

Got it.

You mean a stacked pots Balance control - as found on many two pickup bass guitars. I was thinking of the wiring concept from some variants of the Fender Broadcaster.
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

How did you plan to pack 3 pots (one of them a dual-blend) and a 5-way blade into a Tele?
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

It is possible to fit three "dime" pots plus a lever selector switch through the metal control plate, into the vintage format control cavity. The problem then is getting your fingers and thumb around them to make quick, accurate adjustments.

Perhaps, a more practical proposition would be to ditch the selector switch altogether. Obtain a blank control plate and drill your own holes. Vol, Bal., Tone + push/pull to coil split the neck position humbucker.
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

You are right, it is going to be a tight fit, I was going to get a blank control plate and use the dime pots, I'll be using the Oak Grigsby 5 way switch, which fits the control cavity with some room to spare, even then it is going to be tight. FunkFingers you may be onto something with the coil split option, that might be an easier way to wire. Or would it be easier to simply think of this as a standard Strat wiring setup and treat the N/S coils of the split humbucker as the N & M strat pickups like here:
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Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

Thinking of your proposed wiring like the Stratocaster schematic above restricts the neck position pickup to parallel interconnection of its coils.

To be honest, I am not sure what you expect the balance pot to achieve. It would be normal for a typical vintage output humbucker in the neck/rhythm position to overpower a vintage output Telecaster bridge/treble pickup. Similarly, it would be normal for the Tele pickup to overpower the coil split humbucker. The "sweet spot" on the Balance pot would change, depending on which mode the humbucker happens to be in at the time.
 
Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

Funkfingers said:
It is possible to fit three "dime" pots plus a lever selector switch through the metal control plate, into the vintage format control cavity. The problem then is getting your fingers and thumb around them to make quick, accurate adjustments.

Perhaps, a more practical proposition would be to ditch the selector switch altogether. Obtain a blank control plate and drill your own holes. Vol, Bal., Tone + push/pull to coil split the neck position humbucker.
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Yeah, I asked because I've been through this exercise already.

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Re: Blend Pot wiring for Telecaster

Actually the wiring for this might be a bit easier, I can fit a 500K stacked concentric in one of the existing tone pot locations, so I will not even have to mod the control plate. I All I really need to know is how to wire in the blend pot and what type to use. I have seen some diagrams where it is as simple as taking the hot leads of the pups you want to blend and running them to a linear pot, and I have seen some diagrams in which you utilize a blend pot with a center detent. Thanks for any help you can give,
 
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