Tele with NON-master Tone Pot?

I don't know how to accomplish exactly what you describe, but a no-load tone pot on "10" is effectively removed from the circuit, so using that will allow you to use a standard Tele wiring scheme and still have the neck pickup wide open as well as a tone pot on the bridge pickup.

You'd need to be quick if you're one to change pickups mid-song, though.

 

Doesn’t the original wiring have a setting with neck with no tone control

Broadcaster wiring ?

I don’t know how you can get it to work in your application though

And in the broadcaster it’s a blend instead of tone pot

Or maybe you can use pre 66 wiring and not put the bassy sounding cap and have no tone control on the neck

I think you’re answer may be in those two designs I’m just not smart enough to figure it out

 

Here's a wiring scheme that'll get you the tone control only when the switch is set to the bridge pickup (not on the neck pickup nor in the middle both-pickup position).

 

yeah, I used to have mine set up that way. I also once had it wired to use the tone pot for both pickups, but with different caps on each pickup. I don't have the schematics handy, but I know it can be done. I'm pretty sure that both of these designs came to me through this forum, many years ago.

 

I have built with a bridge pickup only that was wired directly to the jack . No load at all and pure sound . I liked this very much .

 

Not sure what you mean. It will affect the tone of the bridge pickup but not the neck pickup.
Also, it has no effect on the tone when the switch is in the middle position (both pickups).

 

DiMarzio's diagram shows a Gibson-type toggle switch, which is a different beast than a Tele blade switch.
Which kind of switch are you using?

 

It is easy to do this, but with modern switching, you also get the tone control when you have both pickups on. All you have to do is connect the wire that goes to the tone pot to the same lug to which the bridge pickup hot wire is connected – instead of to a lug that carries the master output of the entire switch.

Master tone controls are one of my pet peeves about the way guitars tend to be wired from the factory. It’s really an impediment to dialing in a guitar nicely without needing to do on-the-fly knob fiddling.

 

Gibsons all have separate tone controls for each pickup. The key is to go first to the tone control from the bridge pickup and from there to the switch.