How to wire my esquire!

[benbenben]

I'm past the honeymoon period with my K-line strat and I'm STILL loving it.

My previous guitar (MIA '97 Tele) has been out of action cause I sold the antiquities to get funding for the strat. That said, I LOVE the strat's neck and 2 and 4 positions. I'm missing my tele for those signature tele bridge sounds so I'm wanting to convert my tele into an esquire to be my pick up, no frills, no worries guitar.

I've just got a custom wound tapped tele bridge and I'm wanting to know how I can wire this.

I understand the standard is
1. bassy
2. tone
3. bypass tone

As the bridge is tapped, I'm wanting to obviously have one of these positions to be tapped. I've got one of these fender no-load pots, so does that mean I can do without a middle position as w/ tone and back position w/o tone and have tapped and untapped.

Which leaves me to the front position, should I go with the bassy, or the other option of having a "cocked-wah" sorta sound?

I need to know how to wire this. What caps and how to wire it with the no-load pot as well!

Thanks!

Ben

 

[Curly]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

I used this

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Ah sweet! That's a really good start.

Just wondering, how would I incorporate the "cocked-wah" setting in the front position as well as the no-load pot into this thing?

 

[Curly]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

how would I incorporate the "cocked-wah" setting?

maybe this will help

 

[jeremy]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

i used that same wiring scheme but with a .015 cap on the first position, play with the value of that cap to get the cocked wah sound you want

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Jeremy, were you talking about the seymour duncan wiring diagram or the tdpri one?

I'm finding it pretty hard understanding how the diagrams work? With the no-load pot, do I just wire the tone pot as per normal and when in the bypass position, it's just like having a tone-bypass esquire position?

 

[Curly]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

With the no-load pot, do I just wire the tone pot as per normal ?

yes ... no load pots are wired the same, they're just 'out of the circuit' if the pot is wide open. In Duncan's tapped schematic, that would be the rear and mid positions -- the front position has the bassy cap.

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

So how do i change "bassy" cap to the cocked wah.

I really appresh you help curly!

Just wondering, which "wires" are associated with which position. I'm not sure which path to follow and what caps to change :S

 

[Curly]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

So how do i change "bassy" cap to the cocked wah.

first read response #5

now look at the schematic in post #2. the .047 cap is the standard tele tone cap; the .022 cap is for the fixed bassy sound.

sooner or later, you are going to have to learn by doing, or get someone else to help you do it. I still don't understand what all the wires do, but I just follow the diagram. that's how you learn.

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Ah ok, so if i change that 0.47 to a 0.015 then it should change that "bassy" option to a cocked wah?

 

[Curly]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Ah ok, so if i change that 0.47 to a 0.015 then it should change that "bassy" option to a cocked wah?

wrong answer

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Hey guys, sorry to bring this up again, but I realised I didn't fully resolve my question. I've taken the tapped telecaster SD diagram and tried to incorporate the cocked wah position into it. Let me know if this is right. I wanna wire this asap cause I have 10 days to see if i like the custom wound pup.

I'm not sure what to do with the blue and green caps. The two diagrams seem to end up in different places. If someone could help me out, that'd be reallly really handy!

Thanks!

 

[jeremy]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

if you go back to the stock duncan diagram .022 cap is the bassy setting, so change that value to a .015. the .047 is for the tone control

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Oh serious? It's that simple? If I wanna play around with the cocked-wah I just play around with that 0.015 cap?

 

[jeremy]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

yup

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

do i go lower for other sounds?
If i go higher, than it's baassier right?

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

One question, what's

http://www.glendaleguitars.com/Pink Paisley5.jpg

These big 'caps' for? I see them on older guitars and they look pretty cool

 

[jeremy]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

just old school caps, paper and oil maybe as opposed to the polyester or polypropylene or mylar or ceramic or something else. some people say you can hear the difference others say you cant. if there is a difference it is fairly subtle.

higher values = less treble

 

[benbenben]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

Would a Sprague ORANGE DROP .047mfd 200Volt Capacitor be alright for the tone cap?

Is there a particular type of cap to use for the cocked-wah 0.015 position?

 

[jeremy]

Re: How to wire my esquire!

i use orange drops all the time and they are fine. you can use whatever you want for the smaller cap, i think i have an orange drop in mine but i cant remember. value will have waaaaay more impact on tone than the type of cap you use. once you find a value you like then you could try different types of cap but in general in a guitar circut there isnt going to be much difference. a little maybe, but not alot.