Wiring 5-way Jazzcaster Deluxe thing (Wide range + single coil)

[Sugar382]

Hey guys,
Apologies if a similar topic has come up. I'm building a guitar with a Telecaster deluxe/custom type of pick-up configuration. Wide range humbucker (Telenator MOD1) and single coil in the bridge. However this is a 2-knob deal for volume/tone and this is where I need help. I'd like to have a 5-way strat-like selector w/ out-of-phase options and maybe incorporate some push/pull pots since there are only 2 knobs. What is the best way to wire this? Is there anything I'm missing or could this work some other way? Any caps or transistors needed? I'm also thinking pots should be 250k, right?

Thanks so much guys!

 

[bagman67]

First of all, welcome.  That's a handsome axe, although the contrast of that bargain-basement Arbor neck with the top-shelf Telenator pup and Warmoth body is amusing.  If it suits you, rock it!


Anyway -


I found a passel of 5-way diagrams here (along with a zillion other ways to wire a Telecaster):


https://sites.google.com/site/phostenixwiringdiagrams/teles/2-pickup-teles#SHTele5-WayHOoP

 

[Sugar382]

First of all, welcome.  That's a handsome axe, although the contrast of that bargain-basement Arbor neck with the top-shelf Telenator pup and Warmoth body is amusing.  If it suits you, rock it!


Anyway -


I found a passel of 5-way diagrams here (along with a zillion other ways to wire a Telecaster):


https://sites.google.com/site/phostenixwiringdiagrams/teles/2-pickup-teles#SHTele5-WayHOoP

Haha, don't mind the neck, it's just to make it look more "complete". I have a Warmoth standard Tele neck neck for this one! But thank you so much, this is an awesome site! My wide range humbucker appears to just be one long wire - can I pull them apart on the inside?

 

[bagman67]

If it's one long wire with a braided wire exterior, nope, that's a two-conductor pup.  The braided wire exterior is the ground and also acts as a shield for the internal conductor, which is your hot signal.  What this means is you would need to do some non-amateur mods to the pickup to get the two coils to go out-of-phase or to switch between parallel and series.  Woulda been cheaper and safer to have Telenator wind the pickup that way for you in the first place, but all is not lost - you can still run the bridge and neck pups in series or parallel with respect to each other, and maybe some out-of-phase stuff.  I'm not the electronics guru around here, and I prefer simpler things, but some of our other brethren on the board have some deep wiring chops.  Stand by for someone with a knowledgeable opinion to weigh in.


Bagman