Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

[deftgala]

I have a set of Antiquity's for my tele I just got in the mail (thanks Lew!!!) and am confused about which schematic to use as my template.

My tele is a '00 Standard so does that mean I use that SD schematic diagram, or do I use the '53 Tele diagram because they are Antiquity PuPs.

Oh... and as a side, I had never removed the pickguard from my tele and just found out that it is double cut in the neck position for humbuckers, and has a cut in the middle position, too.

I had no idea Tele's were made this way. Are all teles cut like this?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

I have a set of Antiquity's for my tele I just got in the mail (thanks Lew!!!) and am confused about which schematic to use as my template.

My tele is a '00 Standard so does that mean I use that SD schematic diagram, or do I use the '53 Tele diagram because they are Antiquity PuPs.

Oh... and as a side, I had never removed the pickguard from my tele and just found out that it is double cut in the neck position for humbuckers, and has a cut in the middle position, too.

I had no idea Tele's were made this way. Are all teles cut like this?

Thanks! I'd use the wiring diagram that gives you neck, neck & bridge, bridge....NOT the one that puts a cap on the neck pickup to make it super bassy.

Some of the MIM Teles use the universal rout so they only have to make one body and can put whatever pickups they want in it.

The vintage Teles are only routed for standard Tele neck pickups.

The Antiquity Surfer Strat neck pickup sounds killer in those Teles that will let you use a Strat neck pickup. Requires a new pickguard.

Lew

 

[Curly]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

My MIA is routed HSH.

I'd just use the Standard tele schematic

 

[deftgala]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

Okay... so Lew, I don't speak "i-TELE-ano!"...lol --- translation--> what the heck are you talking about!

what is a cap? I definetely don't want a cap... I just want a standard neck, neck/bridge, and bridge setup, like Curly is talking about. Curly says use a Standard Diagram which is what I was thinking.

Lew, what would happen if I used the '53 Tele schematic? is that schematic restricted to '53 tele guitars?

'53 tele scematic or standard schematic?

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

Here's the link to the wiring diagram you want:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/schematics/std_tele.html

Caps are capacitors. Used for tone controls.

Thanks again!

 

[mrfjones]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

use standard. you will like that much better

 

[deftgala]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

lew, you mentioned to NOT install the cap. But in the standard schematic, there IS a cap grounded to the volume pot. this means that the cap must be installed, right?

Ang.

 

[deftgala]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

sorry about the cap reference i quoted you on lew, you didn't tell me to NOT put on the cap.. sorry...

okay, so.... what do i ground the cap to? at the moment it is attached from the tone pot and grounded to the volume pot.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

thanks lew for mentioning NOT to install the cap. But in the standard schematic, there IS a cap grounded to the volume pot. this means that the cap must be installed, right?

Ang.

Yes. That's your tone capacitor. Without it your tone control won't work.

Early 50's Teles were invented a few years before the Fender P-bass was invented.

So Leo put a .1 capacitor on the neck pickup when the selector switch was in the #1 position to make the neck pickup super bassy so a guy could play bass on his Tele. Sounds awful.

The Fender '52 RI Teles come wired that way but most people rewire them without the .1 cap on the neck pickup.

But you need the cap on your tone control or else your tone control won't work.

 

[deftgala]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

Yes. That's your tone capacitor. Without it your tone control won't work.

Early 50's Teles were invented a few years before the Fender P-bass was invented.

So Leo put a .1 capacitor on the neck pickup when the selector switch was in the #1 position to make the neck pickup super bassy so a guy could play bass on his Tele. Sounds awful.

The Fender '52 RI Teles come wired that way but most people rewire them without the .1 cap on the neck pickup.

But you need the cap on your tone control or else your tone control won't work.

Well, I spend about three hours the tele installation before breaking. It's currently 2:15 in the Sat. Morning and am reading up on the threads.

okay, so this caP ISN'T going to make the Antiquity neck sound horrible? I enjoyed the sound of the neck stock Fener Pup with 500k. I am hoping that I enjoy the Antiquity 250k neck when it is installed tomorrow.

i am going to start from scratch in the morning. thanks again for all the advice and guidance.

angelo.

 

[deftgala]

Re: Installing Tele Pups... for Lew and other experienced Tele players

thanks for the help, guys.. the PuPs are in the guitar are sound great!!!