would this work?

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last night i played a gig, and my guitar took a dump during sound check (http://www.squierguitars.com/products/search.php?partno=0327502506 that's the one.) luckily a friendly guy in an other band lent me his, and i felt like i'd landed on my feet when i took a step up from the squier tele to a fender :P i preferred the tone for some things (the fender had single coils, as opposed to the humbuckers in the squier) but hated it for others. i sorted out the connection that had gone wrong in my guitar this morning, and it's working a-ok now!

my question is, how easy would it be to add a single coil pickup to my current guitar (keeping the two humbuckers as they are)? it currently has seperate volume and tone knobs for both, and a 3-way selector to choose neck, bridge, or both. i know very little about these things, so bare with me :o but in my mind, i was thinking adding a switch to disable or enable the new pickup, and a volume and tone knob would be quite an interesting way of working. i think i'd want it near to the bridge than the neck. would this be feasible? or should i just buy another guitar and swap around? :rolleyes: :p (i'd rather not!)

thanks for any help!

Andy.
 
The two-bucks-and-a-single is a time-honored mod, but I've personally never liked this setup. You wind up with issues due to increased magnetic drag on the strings, called strat-itis by some. Plus, the middle single is difficult to place properly, and gets drowned out by the humbuckers if used with them. Luckily, squier teles are dirt cheap, so the best solution is to get one as a backup and use it when you want single coil bliss. Hope this is helpful to you...
 
the neck single coil is where it's at for a strat. i'd go with two single coils and a humbucker.
 
If the pickups are wired for it (though, if they are the original squire pickups, they probably are not), you could just tap the pickups. It's not QUITE the same (the angle of the bridge pickup on the Tele and Strat are a big part of the sound), it will get you pretty close.

And, of course, it's an easy mod. You just use a push pull knob to ground the center taps.


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thanks for all the great replies - you've set the cogs wurring, though i'm very concious there's some Big gaps in my knowledge about how these things work. your great answers have made me think up about 20 new questions, before i even begin to think about trying this :P (this is the first modification i'll have done to my guitar, apart from new strings :rolleyes: )

i was also wondering - would it work to almost have the current pickups as two seperate systems? and use a toggle switch to switch between the two circuits? i've also been thinking about adding an "on/off" switch, kind of like a mute switch (like Jonny Greenwood) - so if i can all this in one go, then i'd be happy :D

does anybody have some sort of online resource that would be able to walk me through some of the basics of this kind of thing?

ta!:)

Andy.
 
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