Seymour Duncan Antiquity '55 Tele Wiring Help Needed!

Hey gang,

I just opened up the Tele today to install a new pickup - a Seymour Duncan Antiquity '55 Tele pickup for the Bridge position.

The guitar it's going into:
2002 Fender American Standard Telecaster

SD pkg. includes wiring schematics for old Esquire and '53 Tele wiring but nothing can be found on paper or online for hooking up a '55 Antiquity into an American Std. Telecaster.

I have a Fender '51 Nocaster Custom Shop pup in the neck position. I simply took out the Fender Nocaster BRIDGE pickup to put in this new Antiquity pup. I hooked up the Antiquity pup the exact same way.

The results:

Position 1: Absolutely awesome. Pure Tele twang.

Position 2 (middle): sounds like bridge pup again, but just a bit attenuated (muted slightly)

Position 3: sounds great.

The problem is coming in when I go to the middle position - something's wrong.

Is there any one out there that can provide some clear cut answers on how to get the middle position to be an even mix up bridge and neck?

Thanks!

Sounds like there is an out of phase issue. Try switching the leads on one - not both - pickup - so the ground wire goes to the switch and the lead on the switch goes to the ground...

So on the bridge pickup:

1. ground wire goes to switch (which terminal?)
2. + / lead wire on the switch goes to ground (which wire from the switch will go to ground?)

FYI: Nocaster Custom Shop pups as a pair are designed for hum-cancellation in the middle position... not sure if that is what might be causing the prob here. Because I now have the SD Antiquity pup in there, I wonder if that's the root of the problem.

I'm still a bit hazy about the instructions... any out there able to provide a hand sketch or schematic they found somewhere online?

Thanks

Seymour Duncan winds their tele pickups in the opposite direction that Fender does. This is what you need to do:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=changing_tele_lead_phase

Thanks for the help! I checked out the SD diagram and it did the trick. Now I'm back in action and the Tele sounds great with the new pup.

N