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Old November 18th, 2005, 01:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
FatTeleTom
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You may want to consider a 5-way switch, per the American Series Hot Rodded Fat Tele (now discontinued). You can find the wiring diagram on Fender's website.

I've got one of these, and like it a lot. The DH-1 humbucker it came with is certainly decent, but I'm considering p.u. upgrades at the moment. No experience with other Tele p.u.'s yet though, so can't help you there, other than to say that I'm very tempted by Fralin's Blues Special for the bridge and Unbucker for the nect.

But the 5-way switch is definitely handy. You get:

bridge
bridge+neck (both single coil)
bridge+neck (neck in humbucker mode)
neck (single coil)
neck (humbucker)

Admittedly, I don't use that middle choice (bridge+neck bucker) all that much, but it's nice to have.

Oops, forgot to mention that Fender uses an extra resistor in there (see parts list/wiring diagram) that apparently helps balance out the two p.u.'s.
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