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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:00 am
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Do you have your vol and tone pot reversed ?? Normally the vol is by the sel. switch

Not that that matters, check the wiring terminal per terminal with this.

It's OK that you have your cap grounded though the other pot terminal whatever, as long as that lead is to ground, and ONE vol. pot terminal is grounded.


http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/sup ... d_tele.jpg

The ONLY difference with doing the Fezz deal is the wire from the tone pot to the vol. pot goes on the same volume terminal the wire to the jack is on, instead of the outer one (with the wire from your switch)

http://www.singlecoil.com/docs/tele-tone2.pdf


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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:30 am
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Yes the Tone is by the selector switch and the whole plate is reversed so from front to back it's Volume/Tone/Selector, It's wired from the factory that way with the blacktop HH. Thanks for asking, now I know why I couldn't find a schematic that matched (brain cramp, I didn't think about it being reversed)

Here is the $64000 question. With the original cap the tone control worked some, like a bright switch. Now with the new cap and wired exactly the same the Tone control seems to be nonexistent, but with good tone, a little of what a Tele purest would call a little dark, but pretty good Humbucker treble response.

Why ?

and how would the Fezz Parker mod be with the reversed wiring and do you think it would change the function of the tone control ?

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Post subject: Telecaster Black top tone control mod ?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:01 pm
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Back again, I figured out how to do the Fezz Parker mod (flipped the page upside down and everything looked right :oops: )

But it didn't change anything with the tone control but did mess up the Volume control (which acted like the tone did originally ) so I put it back.

I guess there is something different about this guitars wiring but I haven't a clue as to what.

any other thoughts ?


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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:10 pm
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Ah I forgot it was a blacktop !


you posted again before I wrote this



O.K. here we go.

I don't know why the heck the tone doens't work now with you just wiring in a different cap ???

Anyway, you could try the Fezz mod...............at this point you have nothing to lose :roll:



Take the white wire that comes from the selector switch OFF the tone pot and solder it to the top termial (in your picture) of the VOLUME pot.

At the same time, REMOVE the white wire (the wire from the tone pot) that is on that same vol. pot terminal and move that to the MIDDLE terminal on the vol.pot. Then you have Fezz Parka.


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Post subject: Telecaster Black top tone control mod ?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:28 pm
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What are you thoughts about changing to a TBX tone control ?

I do like the tone with the new cap, it seems set to the tone at 8 that I like, so I would like some control without altering the overall sound of the guitar.


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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:45 pm
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I dono, never heard it myself.

http://alexplorer.net/guitar/mods/tbx.html


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