i need keystone wiring help!!!

[theshredermaster]

bruce sent me my pick ups, i put them in last night... and now when i plug in my tele, (it's an 83' american top loader), the neck pickup works in every position!!!

HA

maybe i should have had that martini after I re-wired my tele!!?

please help !!!

p.s. (the neck pick-up sounds amazing!!!)

the wiring doesn't match the fender schemes i see online....

i'll post pics in a minute

[Pete Galati]

Originally Posted by theshredermaster

the wiring doesn't match the fender schemes i see online....

I'd say just offhand, that that's what your problem is

[theshredermaster]

so after comparing whats going on inside my tele with EVERY other tele scheme i can find i realized that who ever had this guitar before me upgraded the input jack, the pots, and turned the three way switch upside down.....

so i figured it out myself, and its working pretty nice.....

here's a question:

does the soldering effect the tone?

I'll do some more research .........

[Pete Galati]

Originally Posted by theshredermaster

so after comparing whats going on inside my tele with EVERY other tele scheme i can find i realized that who ever had this guitar before me upgraded the input jack, the pots, and turned the three way switch upside down.....

so i figured it out myself, and its working pretty nice.....

here's a question:

does the soldering effect the tone?

I'll do some more research .........

Some Tele switches, like the Japanese Stewmac one, don't hook up the same as CRL or Oak switches. So that might be why it seems backwards.

I try to do good solder joints, and not use too much solder, because my feeling is that it can't bee good for your sound. But I've got absoluely zero as far as soldering training. I hear that Terry Downs has a good DVD on wiring guitars, that's probably well worth getting.

Helps to have a soldering station, with a wet sponge to clean the tip with, because if your soldering iron's tip isn't clean, your solder joints won't be very good.

[Dick Seacup]

Originally Posted by Pete Galati

Helps to have a soldering station, with a wet sponge to clean the tip with, because if your soldering iron's tip isn't clean, your solder joints won't be very good.

QFT (especially that wet sponge part). And I'll add that a Weller dual temp, 260/200W gun is way overkill for guitar wiring and is proof that 'too much of a good thing' isn't always a good thing.

[eryque]

Soldering shouldn't affect the sound unless you have abnormally bad joints.

I was taught to *always* make a solid mechanical joint before soldering, and then to heat the work and let the solder wick into it. That way the solder works mostly as a glue to weld the work in place, and not to make the connection. When I do it that way I never have problems down the road.