Help me pick out a wiring diagram for my Mark Jenny Build?

[benecol]

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. 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?

[benecol]

(and please accept my apologies, seven years and four posts is awful - I'll post more, honestly: I made a baritone tele and everything earlier this year...)

[benhenny]

250k, solid shaft = traditional. Some here prefer 500k. If it were me, I'd find a pre-wired unit like the one at the top, with the specs you prefer - like these from mojotone:

http://www.mojotone.com/guitar-parts...d-fender-style

But I'm not so smooth with the soldering iron. My current Tele has some mods done to it by some teenager with a hot iron and gobs of cold solder points.

[benecol]

I'd looked at Mojotone, funnily enough, but they get a bit expensive to ship over to the UK, unfortunately.

[Ricky D.]

Originally Posted by iscaboy

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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?

Log taper 250K solid shaft pots for me. I like the CTS dimple-backs.

Tone cap value is a personal preference thing. I've always been happy with 047.

I have a strong opinion about the treble bleed. I use a 680 pF cap in parallel with a 220K resistor. Tone stays almost exactly constant as the volume is rolled off. The resistor is very important in smoothing out the response curve. A cap without a resistor in parallel will sound very harsh at lower volume settings.

[benecol]

Thanks all - much appreciated. Will post some pics elsewhere when they start rolling in from Mark.