telecaster 4.0
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it's finally done after waiting weeks for the parts. i highly recommend the 4-way switch if you have a tele. the sound of the two pickups in series is brilliant. i love it. it's darker than the other 3 with extra output so it's great for a bluesier, overdriven sound. best cheap mod around.
so, what have i done to this thing now. i've changed this guitar so many times.
-graphtech saddles
-neck from a 1995 stratocaster, the rest of the guitar is 1996.
-duncan vintage stacks
-4-way switch
-new CTS pots and an orange drop 473 cap. i've wired them right handed so that they actually work now. fender is nice enough to wire their left-handed guitars in "reverse" but they don't bother to use reverse taper pots so nothing works properly. my gibsons are wired right handed anyway so i'm used to this. now the numbers mean something too.
-fender amp knobs
-new parchment pickguard
http://minorlith.net/visual/tele4.jpg
it's finally done after waiting weeks for the parts. i highly recommend the 4-way switch if you have a tele. the sound of the two pickups in series is brilliant. i love it. it's darker than the other 3 with extra output so it's great for a bluesier, overdriven sound. best cheap mod around.
so, what have i done to this thing now. i've changed this guitar so many times.
-graphtech saddles
-neck from a 1995 stratocaster, the rest of the guitar is 1996.
-duncan vintage stacks
-4-way switch
-new CTS pots and an orange drop 473 cap. i've wired them right handed so that they actually work now. fender is nice enough to wire their left-handed guitars in "reverse" but they don't bother to use reverse taper pots so nothing works properly. my gibsons are wired right handed anyway so i'm used to this. now the numbers mean something too.
-fender amp knobs
-new parchment pickguard
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After extensively throttling the S-1 system and the SCN's in a strat I whole heartedly agree. The sound of two or more single coils in series is lovely.
It looks great ex, the amp knobs are perfect, Muddy would approve.
How are the saddles?
otherwise, the guitar will hum like a bitch when you touch the neck pickup cover.
That's the thing I LOVE about my tele. The bridge pickup can be really harsh when I want it to be. : ) Love that growl.
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the saddle material makes a big difference so it's nice being able to really pin down the sound you want by changing things.
The project I'm putting off is my old mustang. After many years, I finally found TWO set screws so I don't have to replace the bridge anymore. Now I just need to get two new pickup switches, tone and volume pots, tone and volume knobs.
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When can I send you my next Tele for work?
you don't want me anywhere near it. trial and error is great when it's your own instrument.
my next project. perhaps.
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I like the looks of that one, yes...
My next tele will be easy. This guy:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=guitar/search/detail/base_pid/515207/
Swap in a Fralin open-zebra PAF in the bridge and a Gibson Nickel Classic 57 in the neck. Replace the push-pull tone, have two volumes (one for each pup). Maybe graphite saddles. But I'll probably have my local guy do all the work... shipping it to you and back might cost a little much.
if this body stays low, i'm going to grab it. i'll route the neck for a full size HB as well and then just slowly gather parts. it had a full size tele bridge on it before. i'd much rather have a hardtail strat type bridge like the thinline but i'll burn that bridge when i get to it.
How about a Tune-o-Matic and Stop tailpiece?
And a Fender Wide-Range Humbucker in the neck?
And a Harmonic Design Super 90 in the bridge?
yes, excellent. Love the Super 90 although why not go with the new Lindy Fralin split coil version of the Fender FR?
http://www.fralinpickups.com/humbuckers.asp#p92 yoink.
I do love the Fralin's...
Eh, subjective judgement there.
potato potAto
it's already drilled etc. for a fender type bridge.
from my window to yours
You could still Gibson-ify it with a T-o-M and stop tailpiece. You'd have to drill it different, but it could be done.
I just prefer the T-o-M...
since the strings have to run parallel to the body (since the neck isn't angled back), i wonder how it could be made lower enough to do that.
Good question...
A friend of mine has a T-o-M on his Jazzmaster that he had retrofitted, so I know it CAN be done. Lord knows how much work it would take. They have to have some sort of low-profile bridge for Fender retrofits.
It's the only thing I'd change about my current (and future) Tele. I don't like the one-piece bridge/tail, and I HATE string-thru.
BTW, I love the amp knobs... I'm wondering if those would look decent on my future Tele. They look great on my current Deluxe Tele.
http://www.fender.com/products/show.php?partno=0114700
this is still my prefered bridge though.
http://www.fender.com/products/show.php?partno=0101680
what about tone pros (through body design) no tailpiece just the bridge?
That first one, the Strat-O-Sonic, is similar to the bridge I had on my Telesonic... pretty nice, it's like a one-piece T-o-M that strings thru and over. Still kind of a pain to string up, though.
Anyways... what about those pickup choices for that Tele? I really want someone here to try a Super 90 in a Tele bridge...
I checked out that site. P-90 Sound in a single coil that will just fit right in.
It's very tempting...but I do like the sound I get from the stock pups...
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