#Telecaster pickup wiring diagram full#

His son is selling reissues that are VERY good - but again, just the pickup will not get you there, you need the whole package. Red's originals sell for ungodly amounts - like $500 for a bridge pickup.

#Telecaster pickup wiring diagram full#

Complicated, but folks on the Tele forum and the Clarence White Forum can give you the full skinny (it's all actually posted on the Clarence White Forum where I'm pretty active). Combining that with a Strat neck pickup (or Harmonic Design Mini-Strat) AND a 4-way switch (so pickups can be combined parallel or in series.) has several out-of-phase tones that are actually useful, plus some Strat-like sounds. The closest I've found is using a Red Rhodes Velvet Hammer bridge pickup, which has a second coil and very bizarre wiring (the pickup alone, which has two coils but is NOT a tapped-coil pickup like a humbucker and must be wired using Red's diagram or it just doesn't work right). IF the neck pickup is weak it will sound horribly thin.įor that kind of sound the Nashville Tele (with 3 pickups) just doesn't do it either - the Strat's pickups are in a unique position in relation to string harmonics, and that's where the 'quack' comes from. Otherwise when you flip the switch the entire circuit shorts out.Ī Phase switch DOES NOT get you a Strat two-pickup sound (mistakenly called out-of-phase) but it does get a useful tone IF your pickups are well-matched and have fairly high output. To add a phase switch to a Tele you also have to lift the ground to the neck pickup cover - there's a small place to clip the connection, then you solder a new wire to ground the cover.