Tele 4-Way Switch Alternate Wiring Question?

[austin]

Does anyone know if it's possible to use a 4-way switch in a Tele to give you the following combinations (the order is not important

Neck w/volume and tone
Neck w/volume (no tone)
Neck and Bridge in Parallel w/ volume and tone
Bridge w/ volume and tone

Basically, the idea is to have one position where you have the neck pickup but the tone control for it is bypassed. I know you can permanently wire a Tele to do this and I also know you can wire a push-pull post to do this. But it seems like it would be easiest to tie it to the pickup selection switch, if possible. I'm new to Tele wiring so I don't know if this is possible or if I should go the push-pull route instead?
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Austin

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Tele 4-Way Switch Alternate Wiring Question?

There are not enough contacts on the four-way selector switch to do what you desire. The tone control normally receives its signal after the volume pot. Hence, the easiest way to add the "no tone control" option is with a No Load tone pot.

 

[austin]

Re: Tele 4-Way Switch Alternate Wiring Question?

There are not enough contacts on the four-way selector switch to do what you desire. The tone control normally receives its signal after the volume pot. Hence, the easiest way to add the "no tone control" option is with a No Load tone pot.

No, that wouldn't work. A no load tone pot would bypass tone for all pickup combinations. My idea (I shouldn't say "my" actually, since it's not like I'm the one that came up with it, but anyway ) is to have no tone on the neck pickup only, but still have tone on the bridge and bridge/middle combos. This can be done permanently by removing the wire that goes from the volume pot to the tone and instead running that to the hot bridge pickup lug. If you don't want it to be permanent, you can throw and push-pull pot in there to either have it run normally, or run to the bridge pickup hot depending on if the pot is down or up. But I was wondering if instead of monkeying around with a push-pull, I could just use a 4-way to accomplish the same thing.
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Austin

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Tele 4-Way Switch Alternate Wiring Question?

You might be able to do it if you use a dual concentric pot for your tone control, so you have separate tone controls for each pickup before going to the switch, then to the volume pot. I'm not sure how the switch lug arrangement would work, but I think that would make bypassing the neck tone in one position possible.