Telecaster Pickup Switch Loose
I recently swapped out the pickguard on my usa fender telecaster and the neck pickup is now loose.
Telecaster pickup switch loose. We all know switch positions 1 2 and 3 from standard telecaster wiring though they appear here in a different order. Not only were the heights of these pickups all over the map the teles neck pickup was loose and wobbly. And lower the string tension until the strings become loose enough. Greatly improve your fender telecaster for 3 bucks.
My pickup selector switch on my telecaster doesnt seem to want to stay in place. Thats a tell tale sign. Next you need to loosen the screws which hold the neck to the body of the guitar. How to upgrade and replace a telecaster jack socket cup intheblues.
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The pickup selector switch is very fussy about the neck pickup it only works properly if jiggled into place just so. When you switch pickups on a multi pickup guitar you can experience volume differences between one position and another. I intentionally like to match a fender tele neck pickup with a duncan jerry donahue model because if you wire one of them backwards they are rwrp in the middle position so i have a hum cancelling option on my teles. How to set telecaster pickup height.
I prefer to keep it near the normal pickup selector switch for simplicitys sake. If you swapped the bridge pickup wires on the switch and the pots but. How to balance pickups on strats and teles.