Tele 2 volume wiring.

[Ace Flibble]

Putting my new Warmoth build together, I'm trying to wire it so each pickup has it's own volume control (and nuts to tone controls!). I've been using THIS wiring diagram from the Seymour Duncan website.
I've run into two problems though, and being a complete newb to this I'm rather stuck.
Firstly, this diagram has the neck volume control as the front pot and the bridge volume as the back pot. I would rather have it the other way around though, with the bridge volume control as the forwad pot and the neck volume control as the rear pot. How would I go about doing this?
Secondly, the pickup selector switch. The four tabs on each side, does it matter if they go left/right/left/right or right/left/right/left? It's just some diagrams show them one way, some show 'em the other, and some diagrams show the tabs of both sides being perfectly lined up. Just wondering what the difference is, if any, and if it'll effect what I want to do.

 

[dbw]

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Firstly, this diagram has the neck volume control as the front pot and the bridge volume as the back pot. I would rather have it the other way around though, with the bridge volume control as the forwad pot and the neck volume control as the rear pot. How would I go about doing this?

Uh... you wire it up like the diagram says, but switch the pots.  How else would you do it?

I don't know anything about Tele selectors so I can't help with the switch

Good luck / welcome

 

[jackthehack]

Be careful with those href's? http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=tele_2v_no_tone

You have to wire it like the diagram shows, leave some extra wire length so you can swap the position of the two pots in the control plate backwards like you want.

Don't know what kind of Tele selector switch you're using, the staggered connector spacing shown in the wiring diagram is typical of Switchcraft/CRL most high quality switches, this is what you would have gotten if ordered from Warmoth. Note that the diagram is looking up at the bottom of the switch and the location of the base/screwholes relative to the connector tabs and ensure you have the switch oriented in the same manner.

 

[tfarny]

Well, if it's really confusing to you, wire it up the exact way shown here as the guys above said, then just re-install the pots where you want them to go. To start to understand wiring, which isn't complicated, this is a good site: http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Pots/i-4000.html

 

[Ace Flibble]

Thanks for the link, that's helped explain a lot.

Yeah, wiring it up like normal then just switching the pots around makes sense. I can't believe I didn't think of doing that already. D'oh!

 

[Patrick from Davis]

If you wire the tele switch backwards (the wire that crosses over the middle could be right or left handed depending on the switch) the middle position will have no signal.  This was how I did it the first time because I followed the picture without looking at the switch.  To fix it, just make a mirror image of it all.
Patrick