Help me identify the wiring in my Tele!!

[Gnatz]

Hello all!
I recently picked up a new to me Tele, and the wiring has me stumped. I’ve compared it to every diagram I can find, and am not seeing a match. I’ve crudely attempted to diagram it hoping that someone would recognize it and be able to help me out.

 

[Gnatz]

Hello all!
I recently picked up a new to me Tele, and the wiring has me stumped. I’ve compared it to every diagram I can find, and am not seeing a match. I’ve crudely attempted to diagram it hoping that someone would recognize it and be able to help me out. View attachment 1083980

 

[AAT65]

Looks like pretty normal Telecaster wiring: Bridge - Bridge + Neck in parallel - Neck.
Don’t fret about whether the tone control goes pickup - cap - pot - ground or pickup - pot - cap - ground, it’s all the same. There are ways of wiring it which use the cap to do the link from the volume pot to the tone pot just to save a piece of wire, but when you trace them through it all comes out the same.

 

[pipthepilot]

Hi Gnatz,

I agree, this is a standard Tele wiring. Position 1 is Neck, position 2 both pickups and position 3 is bridge.

It's important to realise that there are actually many different ways to wire the switch and achieve the same result and understanding how the 3-way switch works is a good starting point.

The upper right and lower left tabs are fixed and aways form part of the circuit whereas the other tabs are the ones selected. Usually, the lower left is the tab that connects to pin 3 of the Volume pot and therefore any switch position that connects to the lower left is the signal out to the jack via the Volume pot.



Similarly, ground can be wired in different places and still achieve the same thing. Ground is anything directly connected to the ground of the Jack. You could solder all ground wires to the control plate and everything would still work. The Capacitor is sometimes connected from pin 2 of the tone pot to the base of the volume pot but again, you can solder it to the base of the tone pot and its still connected to ground so it makes no actual difference.

 

[Gnatz]

Thank you guys, I’m understanding it now!