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Post subject: Wiring a Tele Bridge 72 RI Widerange humbucker
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 8:08 pm
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I have a Tele Thinline that has a single Widerange bridge humbucker, one volume, and one tone. Both 250K pots and a capacitor. I want to rewire with just a single volume pot. Nice and simple. I used a 250K pot and no capacitor. Pickup, volume, output jack. There is now a grounding issue... It buzzes when Im not touching anything metal on the guitar. And the output seems super weak.. Not as full as it was with the volume, tone, capacitor. I have the brown wire as the hot to the volume in and the black and bare wire to the back of the pot. Bridge and Jack grounds are also to the back of the pot. Jack hot is the out of the pot. Third lug of the pot is bent over and soldiered to the back of the pot. Why is it having the buzz when I touch the metal? Why does it not sound as full as before?? Anyone help??


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Post subject: Re: Wiring a Tele Bridge 72 RI Widerange humbucker
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 2:15 pm
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Hi mikeknife82,
I would first re-solder everything that you have soldered to see if you can improve your electrical connections.
You may want to pull your bridge to assure that the bridge ground wire is still connected at the bridge.
I am assuming that the wires connections at the pickup, and the pickup itself are in good working order.

If that fails to offer any results, I would go to a 500k volume pot and connect your ground wires to a dedicated ground wire ending in a "ground star," wrapped with electrical tape as shown below.
That should improve the apparent muted sound problem, and may or may not resolve the ground hum problem.
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If all else fails, you may try adding a capacitor of some value back to the circuit, to see if that tames the hum back to what you are used to.
I would start with an .047 uF / .050 uF capacitor and see if there is any improvement.

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Other than that, you are left with shielding the guitar body cavities from external electrical interference.
Good luck!!


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