Help with Nashville Tele wiring

jvstrat

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I got some parts to upgrade electronics on my Mexican Nashville Tele that has the 3 pickup setup in it. I have a Duncan little 59 for tele in the bridge position. I installed a 2 way on on mini toggle switch to change the 59 from series to parallel. I used this Duncan diagram attached. It works great, but there’s one problem. When I switch the 5 way into the second position it sounds strange, like out of phase maybe with not a big volume drop. If I switch the black and green wires on the mini toggle to change the phase of the 59 I lose one position on the 2 way mini toggle, but second positions sounds correct. Any ideas how I can get 2nd position to sound right and still have everything work? Thanks
 

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Help with Nashville Tele wiring

The other two pickups are Fender?

Seymour Duncan pickups are opposite polarity of modern Fender pickups.

My guess is that you just need to swap the cables (hot for ground) of the two Fender pickups.
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

The other two pickups are Fender?

Seymour Duncan pickups are opposite polarity of modern Fender pickups.

My guess is that you just need to swap the cables (hot for ground) of the two Fender pickups.


Yes they are stock Fender. Ok thanks I will try that.
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Nashvilles are so, so good. Best of strats and teles make them great performance guitars.

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Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Totally agree. I put a strat neck pickup on mine and wired it so that I could have neck + bridge and mid + bridge in series. Ridiculously versatile.
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Totally agree. I put a strat neck pickup on mine and wired it so that I could have neck + bridge and mid + bridge in series. Ridiculously versatile.

Yep, I'm watching for an old one with the Piezo-

And trying to convince my wife that my primary do it all performance guitar needs a back up- while she remembers that the argument for the stage guitar was, I didn't need but one guitar on the stage:)
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Yep, I'm watching for an old one with the Piezo-

And trying to convince my wife that my primary do it all performance guitar needs a back up- while she remembers that the argument for the stage guitar was, I didn't need but one guitar on the stage:)

Woah wait. They made the Nashvilles with piezo at one point? Sweet
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Does anybody know how I should wire my Nashville tele? I've got a Fender Twisted Tel in the neck RWRP and a tex mex strat in the middle RWRP and a Seymour Duncan Broad caster in the bridge. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Re: Help with Nashville Tele wiring

Does anybody know how I should wire my Nashville tele? I've got a Fender Twisted Tel in the neck RWRP and a tex mex strat in the middle RWRP and a Seymour Duncan Broad caster in the bridge. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It's pretty straightforward it you just want the normal positions. It's like a strat with two pots: https://guitarelectronics.com/strat-w-single-master-tone-control/

There are two gotchas though because you're mixing SD and Fender:
1) you have to switch the hot and ground of the Duncan
2) Duncans are wired RWRP compared to Fenders so none of your positions are humcanceling. You would need to put a non-RWRP in the neck or middle.
 
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