130 Tele wirings + Tele History (in bloody German)

Hello,

I started modifying guitars about 30 years ago.
Besides playing guitar (the Tele has always been my favourite one) and bass, "making compendiums" is one of my hobbies ...

My new "Telecaster Schaltplansammlung" is online now (100% cost free!!!).
What's that??? :confused:

This is a 5MB pdf-file with 211 pages and 130 wiring diagrams for the Telecaster (Esquier, Double Esquier, Broadcaster, Nocaster).
Besides the WISYWIG diagrams, each wiring diagram has a "wiring schematic" and which pickup is on/off in which position.

In the "theoretical part" I show how pickups are built, things about volume and tone control and how switches work.
Especially the "Megaswitches" might be intersting, because besides exactly drawn circuit passes, I show the "pass schematics" of these switches and how they work. I think that's unique so far on the internet?

There also is a huge part about the bodies, necks, hardware and colours of the Telecaster, how to date an old Tele +++

The compendium is only in German. :oops:
But the wiring diagrams and schematics might help you anyway.
You will quickly find out that "Masse" means "ground", "Hals" means "neck position" or "Steg" means "bridge position". In Germany we use some other symbols - but I managed to read english schematics very quickly, too. :wink:

Only the history part might cause problems for you (too much German texts) ...
But there are excellent other sources than my Telecaster history in English on the internet!
I used many english online sources for my history, but my history is not the translation of an English text! I have been making own researches on Fender instruments for some years now ...

Maybe you have a try with my "Schaltplansammlung" (sounds like "shultplan somelung" :lol: ) ...
The link to the pdf file is at the end of the page "F-Telecaster-Schaltungen-241.pdf":
http://161589.homepagemodules.de/t40f2-Schaltungen-der-fuer-die-Telecaster.html

And if you are interrested in my 275 pages bass wiring diagrams, too (also link at the end of the page):
http://161589.homepagemodules.de/t29f2-Cadfaels-kleine-Schaltplan-Sammlung-fuer-passive-E-Baesse.html

100% cost free!
Andreas from Germany

Thanks for doing this! I'll look through it.

How excited I was when I saw the start of this threads title can only be compared to how sad I was when I saw the end :(

The schematics are beautiful. The whole thing is a work of art.

Unfortunately I am one of those Americans who cannot resist giggling when seeing
ACHTUNG!

Looks magnificent and valuable.

...just for the schematics it's a gold mine !

I cannot read German but wow...
Great work !!!

Philippe.

As I happen to be somewhat conversant auf Deutsch I, for one am ecstatic! Also, since I am building another guitar (nocaster) at the moment this will be quite useful.

Wow! Perfect timing too. I had been feeling that I would be choosing from among the schematics I just happened to be able to find. Now I will be able to choose what I want from among a fairly comprehensive catalog of designs.

Since I now feel in your debt, if my dream of traveling Germany ever comes true I will have to buy you ein dunkel bier (oder zwei, oder drei ...)

Andreas, Many thanks for making this file available on the forum. Fantastic work! The graphics are incredible. I'll be watching for future posts. I was in Heidelburg about 25 years ago and met a Texan at breakfast one morning. He claimed in a heavy drawl, "The only German I need to know is Ein bier, Bitte!"

Adreas- Just discovered your great piece of work here and it has cleared up so many mysteries of tele wiring for me. I've owned many teles and always thought that differences were the result of a previous owner's mod as opposed to variations in stock models. Again, great job! I can sleep a little better now....

It is only possible to catalogue 130 different telecaster wiring patterns in German.

But no pdf - what does Zurück zur Forum Übersicht (http://161589.homepagemodules.de/) mean ?

Has the link gone bad ?

Jefrs,

This will get you to the PDF:

http://files.homepagemodules.de/b161589/f2t40p73n3.pdf

It is only possible to catalogue 130 different telecaster wiring patterns in German.

But no pdf - what does Zurück zur Forum Übersicht (http://161589.homepagemodules.de/) mean ?

Has the link gone bad ?

That would mean "back to forum overview"

Wow this is absolutely fantastic and will be a really great reference tool. A huge thank you for this.

Lucky my wife is German and I speak enough to get by. I'm better at reading German than speaking it strangely enough...

Thanks. I have no idea why but Firefox decided it was going to make a complete breakfast of that so I had to use IE to open/download. I can decipher tech de given enough time.

Cadfael/Andreas - it is very well laid out and I love the attention to detail.

Cadfael, great job and Danke vielmals for giving it ! My german is not that great but I can understand most of it with internet translation. The different schematics and drawings are already sufficient to make your book very valuable anyway. I like the work in progress approach (version 2.47 is the latest now). Let us know on this thread when you come with newer versions ! And about that, I'm looking forward seeing the '52 Hot Rod in your book !

Wow, this is really cool.

Phenomenal. What a thorough piece of work - any chance of an English version? :)

Wirklich tolle Arbeit!

Vielen Dank!

Spitzenqualität!

Thank you for this - fantastic quality.

thanks a lot for it. excellent stuff

Herzlichen Dank, das ist ja mal ne Sammlung. Couldn't find the 52 Hot Rod listed. Did I missed it?

Danke, what a really nice job.

Perfect work. Even Fender doesn't have this overview in the archives. Hey, why dont you sell it to them and pay us a round. ;)

This is awesome! But do you still have time to play? :wink:

Great work Cadfael. What an excellent resource.

Leo would be proud of you.

Thank you very much.

Wonderful piece of work. Thank you.