benecol
September 2nd, 2011, 04:01 PM
Evening all - long time lurker, very seldom poster... Could I possibly pick your brains?
The lovely Mark Jenny is building me a tele, a decision based very much on praise I've seen here at TDPRI. Shell pink light ash body, enormous Musikraft Fat C 1" maple neck, since you're asking. While he's working his magic, I'm here in the UK sourcing all the extra bits I'll need for the build: drinking a Grolsch now to get my second strap lock, bought a set of Nocaster pickups last week. So far, so good.
It gets a bit confusing when I go to buy my wiring kit. AxesRUs are my supplier of choice in the UK (fair prices, good customer service, actually run by people etc), and I've been looking at the 1967-1988 wiring kit, five down on this page. (http://www.axesrus.com/axeWiringTele.htm) I figure that'll work fine with the three-way standard tele layout from the resources section up there ^^^. My questions are:
- 250k, right?
- Do I need split or solid shaft?
- Logarithmic, Linear or one of each?
- 0.001 treble bleed cap, 0.047 tone cap?
That's about right, isn't it? I just want vanilla tele wiring - I plan to flip the control plate for easier volume swells, but that's it. Not arsed about four way switching or anything (whisper it, but I don't really like it, plus I'm clumsy and I always switch past the neck pickup and end up on the hairy-chested setting).
So is my shopping list about right?
The lovely Mark Jenny is building me a tele, a decision based very much on praise I've seen here at TDPRI. Shell pink light ash body, enormous Musikraft Fat C 1" maple neck, since you're asking. While he's working his magic, I'm here in the UK sourcing all the extra bits I'll need for the build: drinking a Grolsch now to get my second strap lock, bought a set of Nocaster pickups last week. So far, so good.
It gets a bit confusing when I go to buy my wiring kit. AxesRUs are my supplier of choice in the UK (fair prices, good customer service, actually run by people etc), and I've been looking at the 1967-1988 wiring kit, five down on this page. (http://www.axesrus.com/axeWiringTele.htm) I figure that'll work fine with the three-way standard tele layout from the resources section up there ^^^. My questions are:
- 250k, right?
- Do I need split or solid shaft?
- Logarithmic, Linear or one of each?
- 0.001 treble bleed cap, 0.047 tone cap?
That's about right, isn't it? I just want vanilla tele wiring - I plan to flip the control plate for easier volume swells, but that's it. Not arsed about four way switching or anything (whisper it, but I don't really like it, plus I'm clumsy and I always switch past the neck pickup and end up on the hairy-chested setting).
So is my shopping list about right?
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