Need suggestions for thinline p'ups.

mudpuppy

mudpuppy

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I've been wanting to do a build based on a Warmoth thinline body. I'm looking for something that has some 335 warmth and resonance, along with a little tele bite. Blues and fusion played through a pretty clean tube amp is what I have in mind. I'm thinking HB bridge and SC neck, with no fancy coil splitting on the HB. I'm planning on using concentric 500K pots so that I can have independent tone & volume controls (50s LP wiring). Ash body, maple neck/board.

The pickups I have in mind are the quarter pound neck (STR-3) and little 59 bridge (ST59-1b). I'm basing this a lot on the sound clips. Do these p'ups seem like a reasonable choice? Also, with these p'ups and 500K pots, what would be a good guess on tone cap values to try?
 
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for a blues based tele i much prefer the bucker in the neck and the tele single in the bridge. 59n and QP bridge nails it perfectly for me. I use 500k pots, id need to check the cap value. It sounds so good in the middle position too.

As for what you are suggesting, i find the lil 59b to be a very hot pup, too hot for my liking and ive never used the QP neck pup....didnt think it was a bucker either, could be wrong though.
 
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Thanks for the advice, scottish. My experience with Fenders is very limited. The reason I like single coil for the neck and HB for bridge is based on experiment with the LP I recently put triple shots in. The tele may be a whole different ballgame. I'm not too worried about balancing the output of a hot HB pickup vs. the QP, seeing as I'm planning on independent volume controls. I really want to stick with a conventional tele contol layout. That's why I was planning on concentric pots. If there was such thing as a concentric push-pull, I could put a stacked HB in the neck and split it to SC. Even if they made such a thing, I doubt it would fit in the conrol cavity :)

Given your input, I will give some serious consideration to getting a body routed for standard humbuckers. That would open up all the wonderful option you can get from the triple shot rings.
 
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You could always do the wiring I'm fond of suggesting lately: single/humbucker/single; wired as humbucker/humbucker, like this:
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Then you can split the two "humbuckers" to be tele pickups. The bridge pickup is south and the neck is north, so as far as I know, the bridge pickup is to be treated as the red/green, and the neck is to be treated as the black/white.
 
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DepecheMoses said:
You could always do the wiring I'm fond of suggesting lately: single/humbucker/single; wired as humbucker/humbucker, like this:
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Then you can split the two "humbuckers" to be tele pickups. The bridge pickup is south and the neck is north, so as far as I know, the bridge pickup is to be treated as the red/green, and the neck is to be treated as the black/white.
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Now that's a truely interesting suggestion. I assume that it sounds good, or you wouldn't be suggesting it. I want to stick with a std. tele control plate or pickguard without extra toggles or push-pulls. I'll have to check out some of the "Mega" and "Super" switches to see what they might do for me. If you can point me in the direction of any SHS wiring diagrams that include the configuration you mentioned, that would be great.
 
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mudpuppy said:
Now that's a truely interesting suggestion. I assume that it sounds good, or you wouldn't be suggesting it. I want to stick with a std. tele control plate or pickguard without extra toggles or push-pulls. I'll have to check out some of the "Mega" and "Super" switches to see what they might do for me. If you can point me in the direction of any SHS wiring diagrams that include the configuration you mentioned, that would be great.
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http://www.seymourduncan.com/suppor...atics.php?schematic=2hum_1vol_1tone_super5way
That's the closest I could find; there's no "both humbuckers split" option, but you said you were going to go HH anyway though, right? It should be something like this, just off the top of my head:
1. Solder tele bridge and humbucker blacks together: tele white to hot, humbucker white to ground.
2. Solder tele neck black and humbucker red together: white to hot, green to ground.
I think that's it, I might have gotten the phases wrong for Duncan tele pickups though, someone should correct me if I did.
 
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I'm still not sure if I want to go with HH or conventional tele routing. On thing that's going to influence my decision is what bodies I can get a good deal on.
 
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