ProGuitar
TOOLS
FORUM
ACADEMY
  • Login/Register

Tools

  • Guitar Tuner
    • Online Guitar Tuner
    • iOS App
    • Android App
  • Ukulele tuner
  • Metronome

Forum

Academy

  • Lessons
    • Fingerstyle
  • The Guitar
    • Construction & Function
    • Tune a Guitar
    • Classic Guitar Intonation
  • Music Theory
    • The Major Scale on guitar
FORUM
search
arrow_drop_down
Pro Guitar
FORUM
  • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    1. Home
    2. wow-102
    3. Posts
    W
    • Start new chat with wow-102
    • Profile
    • Following
    • Followers
    • Topics
    • Posts
    • Best
    • Groups

    Posts made by wow-102

    • Guitar Upgrades

      In my spare time, I tinker with my instruments so they give me more awesome results.

      I have tried to post a summary of some of these projects, but they seem to be deleted.

      What am I doing wrong?

      posted in Introduce your self
      W
      wow-102
    • Souping Up My Tele Squier (reprise)

      I've have a great playing 2-pickup Squier Telecaster (made in Korea). I previously upgraded it with a control plate that gives me six pickup tones.

      I decided to soup up the Tele once again for even more performance and tonal options. My plan was to transform it into a Nashville Telecaster Deluxe equivalent. A woodworking friend helped me to create a body cavity for a middle stratocaster pickup using a Nashville Tele pickguard.

      I ordered a special chrome metal control plate designed to control three pickups. It came with Bourns pots mounted to a printed circuit board with Treble Bleed to keep the brilliance from getting "muddier" as the volume is dialed back.

      It has six mini toggle switches instead of the stock 5-way blade switch. Three of them are on-off-on and control each pickup by turning it Off or On (in either normal-phase or reverse phase.) The other three are on-on switches to put select pickups in either parallel or series circuit. The switch layout is simple and intuitive. The end result is an instrument that goes beyond the stock five pickup tones.

      The solderless connectors made it a snap to wire everything up and install this upgrade. It just dropped in with no surprises. After the upgrade, I now have 35 unique pickup tones. (see the picture)

      This upgrade is better than the 5-way switch because I can now do things that my Tele couldn't previously do. I can turn on each individual pickup (in normal-phase or reverse-phase) and put them in either parallel or series connection for fatter tones. I can turn on both the bridge and neck pickups to make it sound like a standard Telecaster. This also gives me all those Brian May (guitarist for Queen) Red Special fat pickup tones. And I can turn on all three pickups at once.

      The versatility of this upgrade gives me "tone nirvana" with pickup tones I always wanted (but could never get from stock guitars.)

      It seems like this guitar is the one that I consistently grab out of the rack. It's my favorite Tone Tyrannosaurus.

      alt text

      posted in Telecaster Talk
      W
      wow-102
    • Contact
    • Privacy & Terms
    • Site Map
    top
    Co-funded by the European Union