Telecaster Blend Pot Wiring

This wiring is referred to as the modern or standard telecaster wiring and is still in use today.

Telecaster blend pot wiring. By now most agree that it s not stock tele wiring but a modified broadcaster circuit. One of our favorite and most powerful mods the fralin blender pot is an easy way to blend your neck and bridge pickups to achieve new tones. Now that we ve analyzed the telecaster dark circuit that fender used from mid 1952 up to late 1967 factory telecaster wirings pt. Laburnum ave 2nd floor richmond va 23227 804 358 2699 email protected.

After a couple weeks with it the customer agreed. I 4137 a blend pot can be wired into a guitar in several different ways. Because of this we can only cover some basic wirings that could be further developed for the particular needs of your set up. A fresh and matched set of high quality cts pots a good crl 3 way switch a new switchcraft or neutrik output jack all connected with good cable and solder plus a top notch tone cap can do magic to your tone.

Blend pot wiring an explanation of various wiring options with a blend pot. Single coils humbuckers hum sing sing hum sing hum and much more. In the first position bridge the bridge pickup is engaged. Below is a basic diagram.

Duchossoir telecaster history book both wire the jack with the tip to ground and the casing to the tag on the volume pot. We think we ve nailed it with this harness. Plus info on switches pots coil splitting and more. Blend all 3 pickups together by choosing either position 2 or 4 and playing with the pot.

At ten you have the full bridge pickup. I had to wire the blend circuit myself as the custom shop supply the nocaster. Achieve telecaster tones on a fender strat by blending the neck and bridge together. 1 august 2013 it s time to explore the tele wiring that was introduced after 1967.

The tele wiring i am most tempted to try is the one where you have master volume knob closest to the pickup for easier swells then a blender pot on the middle knob to merge the pickups and then two values of resistor say 250k and 100k wired to the 3 way switch for the tone control options i think this would provide a lot of variety and if the pickups were rw rp you d get hum. I have a 3 pickup tele which i ve attempted to do a 5 way strat style selector but with a master volume and a dual pot 250k 500k in place of the tone pot which one half does a bass roll off for the neck pickup only and the other half was supposed to blend in the neck pickup when the bridge is selected which it does in fact do. The volume knob acts as expected but the tone knob acts a blend that let s you dial in the neck pickup. Nov 25 2008 3.

Standard tele wiring is much more useful.