Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

[awakeontheinside]

Hello, having more than a little frustration here with my Mexican Standard Tele. I bought a gotoh telecaster humbucker bridge and a dimebucker pickup. I took out the 250k vol/tone pots and wired in 500k pots EXACTLY the same.

On the pickup, I left the red/white wires taped, grounded the green and bare to the volume pot, and solderd the black "hot" to the exact same spot on the switch as the stock bridge pickup.

Since the system grounding point was originally on the bottom of the stock single coil pickup, i screwed a thin (2mm) metal plate into the pick-up cavity and grounded to that.

The pickup works and sounds good, but when I stop playing there is an annoying buzzing sound and it only goes away when I touch the volume or tone knobs and none of my other guitars do this, so I figured it was still a grounding problem, so I tried other spots to ground and have had no success for about 2 weeks. I am so frustrated with this, the only Hum-Single telecaster wiring diagram I can find is for a J5 tele but he uses 2 volume pots and that does not help me at all. This is my first telecaster and I don't have any experience with the wiring on this one. Thanks!!!!

 

[BlueGuitar]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

You might look over at the Fender site for an exact wiring diagram for your guitar (hmm... this link doesn't seem to be working- you might need to go to Fender and navigate to Support):

http://www.fender.com/support/diagrams/index.php

You may have miswired your pickups... I'm not sure about the color codes for Gotoh and Dimebucker- that's from Bill Lawrence? Check out this link for color codes:


http://www.blueguitar.org/new/schem/_gtr/pu_mfg_specs-sm.pdf

You might need to ohm out the coils to figure out what is going on with the wiring in your guitar- tap the coils with a small screwdriver to determine if they are putting out a signal or not.

 

[Breogan]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

Does your buzz goes away when you touch the strings? If doesn't I think your problem it is that the bridge ground conector it shortcut.

 

[XSSIVE]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

you may need to ground the bridge...take a ground wire and run it up out of the bridge pickup cavity and lay it (with a bare stripped end) under the bridge then screw the bridge down on top of the wire to complete the ground b/t the bridge/strings and electronics.

-Mike

 

[awakeontheinside]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

I will try running a ground to the bridge since there isn't one (there wasnt one from the factory either so I never added it). And no, the buzz does not go away when I touch the strings.

 

[Breogan]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

Once I fixed the ground from the bridge of a Squier P-bass. I remove the bridge and there was a cable that came from the control cavity through a hole. The cable had part of the isolation removed so it could make contac with the bridge. With time it becamed rusted and din't make any contac. I just cut it and removed a bit more isolation. I screwed the bridge again and the problem was solved.

If the Squier had a ground conection in the bridge I guess the Mex Tele should have it too...

 

[awakeontheinside]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

The stock tele bridge single coil had the ground wire connected to the bottom of the pickup, and since the pick-up obviously screws to the bridge, I would assume that grounded everything. I will try placing a ground on the bridge to the grounding plate i installed to see if that helps. I will keep you guys posted, thanks for the help and suggestions so far!

 

[awakeontheinside]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

Putting in that ground wire fixed the hum problem, thanks alot!!!!

one more question and i will be on my way.

the stock tele wiring with the 250k pots has a capacitor (you know what i mean) from the vol to the tone pots, should this stay wired in the same or remove it since i got a dimebucker in it now?

 

[Artie]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

the stock tele wiring with the 250k pots has a capacitor (you know what i mean) from the vol to the tone pots, should this stay wired in the same or remove it since i got a dimebucker in it now?

Thats probably the cap for the tone control. If you remove it, you'll no longer have a tone control.

 

[awakeontheinside]

Re: Telecaster Humbucker wiring....H-S

cool, thanks again!