Middle pickup wiring

[richm]

I recently put a strat middle pickup and 5way switch in a tele and was wondering if you can just switch the wiring on a tele neck pickup and put 1 in the middle to do the same thing?

[TxTeleMan]

Check out the wiring for the Deluxe Nashville Tele, which is a Tele with a Strat pickup in the middle, and a 5-way (Strat-o-Tone) switch.
http://www.fender.com/support/diagra...300_02BPg2.pdf

This gives you the same pickup selections as the Strat, except that you still have the single Tele tone control that works in all positions.
http://www.fender.com/support/diagra...300_02BPg4.pdf

I rewired mine to the old American Deluxe Tele wiring. Standard Tele pickups with a Strat in the middle and a 5-way switch and a mini toggle. This give the much needed Tele bridge/neck combination, as well as all three in series.

http://www.fender.com/support/diagra...500_02CPg2.pdf
http://www.fender.com/support/diagra...500_02CPg4.pdf

[bargoedboy]

i use a very simple but versatile way of doing this , i have a gibson 3way toggle switch(mainly because they are far more reliable than the blade types on tele`s ) this gives me all standar tele sounds and i use a push push pot on tone to turn middle pickup on or off in any position which gives me 6 sounds.
very easy to use live and does not spoil look of guitar with extra switches.

[Graeme]

I use a mini-toggle also, and I like my system because with toggle down, the Tele is completely standard (pickup selector is N, NB, B) while when the toggle is up I have the strat quack tones or middle on it's own, so the selector gives: NM, M, BM.

N=neck, M=middle, B=bridge

It also has lost of customisation options:
> Can add a treble cut capacitor for the bridge pickup which is only active in the bridge-alone selection, it doesn't affect bridge with neck or bridge with middle.
> Allows blending of neck and bridge when you have a hot bridge pickup that gets swamped by the lower impedance neck pickup when you try to use neck and bridge together
> Can use a split hot bridge pickup with neck pup in the middle position only for a more authentic middle position tone.
> Uses a standard DPDT switch, so you could use a push-pull pot instead if you want

[richm]

Thanks for the responces,you guys have some very good ideas and I will defanately use some of them,but I think I worded my question wrong. What I need to know is can you take a regular tele neck pickup and swap the ground and hot to get the same thing as a reverse wound pickup like a strat has in the middle. My reasoning for this is I think it would look better if you had 2 tele neck pickups on it,look more tele and not look like a strat but still get the quack when you want it.

[Graeme]

It's a common misunderstanding that the middle strat pickup is out of phase with the other 2, and that's what causes the quack sound. The pickups are actually in phase, so you don't need to worry about reversing any wiring.

Modern strats use a reverse wound AND reverse magnet polarity (RWRP) middle pickup. The two reverses cancel each other out so the pickups are all still in phase with each other. This has the advantage of cancelling hum when the middle pickup is used with either the neck or bridge pickup.

Hope that answers your question, but let me know if not ;-)

[richm]

Thanks for the replys,Im gonna try it out.

[Graeme]

I had a PM asking for my Tele schematic, so here it is: