Nashville Telecaster 5 Way Switch Wiring

A stratocaster version of nashville wiring a trick telecaster mod popularized by music city s session cats some tele players add a third pickup plus a blend knob expanding the range of combined pickup tones.

Nashville telecaster 5 way switch wiring. Dlx nashville telecaster xxx xxx. As such the option opens up to use a super 5 way switch and substitute that setting 3 to be neck bridge instead. Not hard to wire up at all. The same wiring performs brilliantly in a strat without the cost and hassle of installing a third pickup.

Nov 27 2010 location. This would make standard strat 5 positions plus tele neck bridge at either end of the throw of the switch. Telecaster guitar forum nashville tele wiring. I recently bought a lightly used squier classic vibe custom telecaster.

The prior owner made some modifications to it and did a pretty nice job. Gregory k watts says september 8 2019 at 9 15 am. This mod was created by tele players looking to coax some strat style tones out of their telecaster while still retaining that crucial neck bridge pickup combination not found on the strat. Nashville telecaster with 5 way switch discussion in tele technical started by joombi apr 11 2020.

A nashville style tele is just a standard telecaster with three pickups instead of two and a five way selector switch instead of a three way selector switch. Wired with 22 awg vintage push back wire for that vintage look and sound. The only special part you need is a 4 way switch. This is another cool wiring scheme that gives you all the traditional sounds plus something extra.

We sell tapped tele pickups individually and as part of the custom shop 53 tapped tele model t guitar shop set which includes a 5 way switch. A lot of my guys who ask for this don t use the middle pickup by itself much. Tele with 4 way switch. This is a standard wiring and one of the classic telecaster tones.

Page 1 of 2 1 2 next apr 11 2020 1. Keeps things simple no extra switching and gives you most of the classic strat sounds plus the classic tele middle sound. Oak makes a 6 way blade switch. Here s a photo for reference.

Gday boys girls. But what if you need a fatter sound out of your tele. I d like to have the standard tele 3 way switch wiring and add in the middle pickup with a k blend pot like the standard brent mason mod. Page 3 of 5.

The most noticeable of these is that he added some type of strat pickup to the middle installed a 5 way switch and basically turned it into a nashville telecaster. 4 way wiring position 2 of the telecaster selector switch gives you both pickups wired in parallel. The two outside switch positions on the tele which select the bridge or neck pickup individually stay basically the same. Soldered 5 way nashville telecaster prewired kit.