Building your first guitar!!!!
My brother recently phoned from Australia and said in two weeks he would be visiting me. He was ecstatic that I had started to play in guitar (I haven't spoken to him for about 10 months) and once I mentioned I would be building my first guitar he said I wasn't to attempt it until he visited. All I have to get is it the axe, pick-ups and neck and he will help me assemble it. Anyway, a friend of mine is willing to give me a standard tele axe for a cheaper price than I'd pay anywhere else. I was thinking of buying this but I realised I wanted a humbucker pickup at the bridge and a single coil at the neck. I am positive on the pickups I want because I have tried them out on another guitar. But my question is, can you install the humbucking pickup just by using a different wiring technique or are there other obstacles?
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The bridge pickup in the Tele is slanted, which means that you won't have to do any soldering/cutting away in the wood, it is already capable of switching to a humbucker.
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# 2
On a Tele, you may want to consider a humbucker in the Neck, they offer more selection between pickups and sound really sweet.
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# 3
You could get a '72 Thinline Tele; You have many options when dealing with Fender type materials.
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# 4
If you are wanting a full size humbucker, you will also have to get a tele bridge made for a humbucker, a couple of things to think about, you need to make sure the humbucker pole pieces are spaced for the bridge you get or you may wind up with the strings not lining up correctly over the polepieces, when you get the right bridge, remove the old bridge, ( cut the pick-up wires off at the selector switch first), then set the new bridge down on the guitar and line up the mounting holes and check for clearence around the pick-up, it probably won't be a problem but it's always better to check and test fit before asumming anything, make sure their is ample space to adjust the pick-up height up and down so that nothing is rubbing on the body cavity, if everything is cool. route the wires, solder them up, if you are buying a new pick-up it should have instructions for the connections so no sweat, tell us how it turns out and if you have any problems let us know................
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