Monthly Archives: January 2011

This wiring was designed for one of our sales reps in the Southeast, Joe Wilson, who wanted to add some extra versatility to his Tele®, while retaining the stock look. For this scheme, we use our “tapped” Hot Lead (STL-2T) and a Vintage Rhythm (STR-1) pickups.

For those of you who are going with a full set of stacks or Lil’ sized humbuckers and would like to still be able to get single-coil sounds – or at least keep that classic Strat ‘quack’ in positions 2 and 4 on your switch – this is an easy way to split all three pickups with only one standard dpdt push/pull pot.

Strats are versatile guitars. We can get a ton of different sounds from them, and that’s why we play them. The one thing you can’t do, however, is get your neck and bridge pickups selected at the same time for that Tele middle-position kind of sound). Well, with this diagram, you are one push/pull away…

Here’s a quick test to determine if your potentiometers need to be replaced or just cleaned.

Our friends across the pond found out in late November, but we were busy worrying about  the naughty-or-nice list when we found out about a different list entirely. Guitarist, the UK’s top guitar magazine, featured a December cover story on The 101 Best Stomp Boxes of All Time Ever. The Seymour Duncan Deja Vu Tap…