please help me with the wiring of my tele

[ralfcaetano]

hey everyone i'm working on a special type of tele... i need help with some special switching on my guitar project it involves one volume, one tone, one 5 way switch, a jazzmaster pickup and a humbucker... i could do the whole thing but the switching is my big issue... i want to get the most tonal possibilities out of this guitar so i was thinking of getting these selections in my guitar:


position 1: neck jm pup
position 2: jm pup/humbucker split
position 3: jm pup/ humbucker
position 4: humbucker split
position 5: bridge humbucker

could someone help me out with a diagram??? and please explain to me why the layout on the switch is the way it is??? i really want to understand how guitar switching is supposed to work...

 

[ralfcaetano]

Re: please help me with the wiring of my tele

hey guys i think i found something useful

now all i need to do is swap the position of the pickups right??? do i need all those capacitors??? i'm also not big on the 3rd position, i prefer the paralell humbucker in series with the jm pup... any ideas/suggestions???

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: please help me with the wiring of my tele

Save time and trouble...that could be done with a mega switch or a super switch but those switches are a pain in the neck to use and in my experiences don't last very long plus they are twice or more the cost of a good CRL or OG blade switch.

Wire the guitar up with a 3 way Tele blade switch to get neck, both and bridge then put a push/pull pot in there to split the bucker...

 

[robrob2]

Re: please help me with the wiring of my tele

For the most tonal possibilities I highly recommend a series/split/parallel switch for the humbucker and use a 3-way selector switch (bridge, bridge+neck, neck). When using just the humbucker it will be humbucking in series and parallel. All three modes have a distinct tone and you can pair the humbucker in all 3 modes with the single coil (in hum cancelling mode when the humbucker is split) for 6 different tones.