Seymourized My Tele!

Detroitblues

Detroitblues

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Had a Seymourized Mini-Humbucker I bought for some unknown reason a while ago.

Decided it would be fitting in install in my tele.

Tele pickup install.jpg

I did have to route out the normal single coil to fit the pickup though. It was done freehand, so its not perfect.

Tele Pickup Route.jpg

But in the end, it did exactly what I hoped it would do. Add a little more spice to my tone!

Tele pickup final.jpg

Now here is the interesting part.

I tried to follow the wiring diagrams here on the SD website.

However, the diagrams that included a mini-humbucker show the green and bare ground wire going to the volume pot ground and the black wire to either the volume pot lug or to a pickup selector.

I thought my pickup was DOA until I realized, the black and bare ground go to the volume pot ground and the green wire goes to the pickup selector blade.

Just thought you guys would like to know that tidbit of info I learned.
 
Re: Seymourized My Tele!

You may have had a cold solder joint the first time you wired it up. All you did by swapping the green and black wires was to reverse the electric phase of the pickup.
 
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actually used a multimeter to figure it out. When I just connect green and black, I had my 6.7 ohm. when I connect ground and black, nothing. Connected green and ground I had 6.7 ohm. Pinched black and ground together and connected the green on the other end, I had my 6.7 ohm again.
 
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I've got a Hot for Tele set in my MIM Tele. Far from a traditional sounding set, but it's excellent.

I hated them at first, until I realized I had them set a bit too close to the strings. Now they have a hint of spank and twang to them, while sounding very muscular.

Love them! But I'd love to try a miniHB or Filtertron of sorts in the neck.
 
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Benjy_26 said:
You may have had a cold solder joint the first time you wired it up. All you did by swapping the green and black wires was to reverse the electric phase of the pickup.
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Benjy_26 said:
Huh. Sounds like that particular pickup has some funky wiring.
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+1

Reversing green & black = electronically out of phase. If your bridge pickup is a Fender pickup, you'll want to leave it that way since most Fender pickups are out of phase with SD when both are wired normally.

I have a SM-1n Firebird pickup in the neck of my Tele with a Hot Stack in the bridge and they're an awesome pair with 500K pots. The bridge is similar to a PAF in terms of output, while the neck sounds like a best-of-both-worlds hybrid of a humbucker and Strat pup.
 
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