jimistone
long standing member
well, no matter how you slice it you are going to have to pull the pick up. Put the gfs in and send the original off to get fixed. That way you can play your Tele while waiting for the repair.Jimistone- sent you a PM. Ideally, I'd like to find someone local who could do the work, I'd just bring the whole guitar to him. Otherwise, I'll have to desolder the lead pickup, and resolder everything back together when the pickup repairs are done. ANd I am not a particularly good solderer!
Nothing wrong in getting all that done, but while the repair is happening, I don't have the Tele to use.
By the way....
Snip the wire off close to the solder joint on the pot, instead of melting the solder at the pot. That way you can solder to the little piece of wire, instead of resoldering to the pot. If the pickup you are installing has the push back type cloth covered wire (that should be vintage correct for your guitar) you just push it back and solder to the little piece of wire attached to the pot where you snipped it off and then pull the cloth covering down over it. You'll never be able to tell it's spliced and not an original solder joint.