Tele 4 Way Switch... which one/brand.

Sorry, I can't answer your actual question but I'll share the following. At one point I "thought" that I would want the 4 way as you do. When I actually got a Tele with the 4 way done as Oak-Grimbsy/Fender, with the positions 1-3 as a "normal Tele" and postion 4 with Bridge/Neck in Series, I ended up liking it that way. I prefer the "original" 3 positions in the traditional order. The 4th In Series/Humbucker-ish position is a great "add on" set of tones and having it "at the end of the line" just feels more intuitive to me.

The builders on the sight should be able to give you an option. Good luck.

 

Buy either one (I think both are made by O-G, anyway) and watch this video:

 

My experience exactly, but do what you want. Wherever you put the series option, it is a favorite of mine. Sorry I can't help with the wiring.

 

I'd also suggest giving the Free-Way 3B3-01 switch a look.

 

The wiring is just different for the neck position. The switch doesn't matter. I'd get the Oak Grimsby though.

Here's Fralin's 4-way wiring guide with the neck in position 4.

https://www.fralinpickups.com/2017/03/14/4-way-switching-tele/

 

I have a Tone-Shaper 4-way that I wired the way you describe (as shown in the Fralin diagram linked above) in a G&L ASAT. I see nothing to prevent doing it with any 4-way. I've only had mine a couple of months, but no issues so far.

 

I think a four position Oak Grigsby switch is a great, very useful mod and I've got it in three of my Tele's. I think of the positions (from the bridge) 1-2-3 as regular Tele combinations and position 4 something special! I don't have an issue with the selection order.

 

you can wire the 4 way to do whatever you want. this pic is from this forum...



I used the diagram in the top right.... but it's wrong. the neck + can NOT jumper to the other side... that side always has neck "minus" and making that connection shorts the pickup. I used the top left diagram on another build and it worked.

on my last 4x I used a new Fender switch and the center wafer was slightly loose.... it would make one direction, but slip and not quite make in the other. I had to superglue it

 

I bought a MOJOTONE solderless 4 way switch for my Tele. The thing is, you'll still need to modify a standard neck pickup by running a third wire to it. The Mojotone switch came with instructions.

 

I bought this Oak Grigsby 4-way for my recent Tele build. It was easy to wire it up like you described.

Here's a video that describes how to do it.

 

Oak-Grimbsy
But if you're going to go 4-way, why not get a standard 5-way switch? Then you have another option. There's several options that you can use for that extra position, if you search around.

 

Beautiful Telecaster, interesting switch.

 

I think you'll really enjoy using it. The word on the street is that some have had success getting that elusive Peter Green Les Paul sound (out of phase humbuckers) by using the out of phase in series position and rolling off the tone if that's your sort of thing.

 

If anyone's curious about the girl who did the demo, here's a "Tuesday Talks" interview she did with Mary Spender.

 

I was going to install a four way as on a rebuild but found this switch. Liked so much installing one on my goto Tele.

 

I don't believe it's possible without a 5 way SUPER switch.

A Strat-O-tone 5 way is actually just a 3 way switch, with two more lever stops (2 and 4 the "in-betweens").