P90s & 4-way switching?

[Unsprung]

Or should I go with 3-way, and decide on series or parallel wiring? My reproduction Telecaster neck arrived, today, and there's not many more parts I need to order, for my partscaster project, then I can start assembling it. The reproduction Telecaster body is routed for P90 pickups, and has a Stratocaster tremolo route. Once I have all of my parts, I'll start putting pictures up, somewhere, to document my assembly.

Just not sure, at this point, how I want to do the switching, is all.

Matt

 

[danw]

Sounds like a neat build; I'm looking forward to the pics. If it were mine, I'd try to make it as versatile as possible. I got a new amp awhile back, and settings I never used to use on my old amp sound fantastic on the new one. You might also be interested in these switching scenarios if you haven't run across them.

 

[Light]

Personally, I've never been all that wild about series wiring - it just doesn't sound all that different, and I like to keep electronics as simple as possible while doing the job required - but you should do what you want.



Light

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[Anfontan]

I've tried series wiring on other guitars and wasn't really impressed-but on theTele I like it quite a lot. The neck & bridge in series gives it a loud & bassier tone that sounds kind of like a Gibson.

I also use an optional wiring that gives you the series and parallel settings on the 2 middle positions, leaving the neck and the bridge positions in their normal locations. I found it in the Tele Discussion group and it was posted by a man named Rob DiStefano, a fine repairman as well.

 

[Unsprung]

I could possibly dig on 5-way switching. I'd have to look at a Gibson Les Paul Special wiring diagram, versus a Fender TC-90/JA-90 Telecaster (which is essentially what I'm "copying," with my choice of Seymour Duncan P90s) before I go with a 5-way switch for an out-of-phase option. I've actually got several 4-way and 5-way switches laying around, and it's entirely possible one of the 5-ways was intended for this partscaster. I'm brewing up a couple of future partscaster projects, beyond this one, with the next one likely to be what I'll call a "Jagcaster" (Tele-style body, Jaguar tremolo and pickups, hybrid Tele/Jag wiring). I say "likely" about the "Jagcaster," since I've already got Jaguar pickups that came out of an MIJ Jag. For that one, I may create my own hybrid Tele/Jag control/switch plate, or I may use a Jaguar control plate/Bass VI switch plate with a modified Tele pickguard. Either way, it's doubtful the "Jagcaster" will have a blade switch.

Matt