You can't beat the classic ceramic disk caps. Can't beat the Sprague orange drops

[belief bone]

Nothing Jay sells can be beat.

 

 

 

So if thats the case, I have no idea what to buy for my 69 thinline tele reissue. It came with 1meg pots. Is there a good reason to put 1 meg pots on a single coil guitar, let alone a tele?

 

 

Also, whats a good set of electronics for a normal tele?

[Burningleaves]

Fender used 1 meg pots in Tele's for some time. Like around the late 60's to the early 80's.

 

 

 

Any particular reason why your changing out the electronics?

[belief bone]

 

Fender used 1 meg pots in Tele's for some time. Like around the late 60's to the early 80's. Any particular reason why your changing out the electronics?

 

the 1 meg pots

 

i wouldnt mind 4 way wiring but i dont know a good place to buy a 4 way switch

[Ken W]

>Is there a good reason to put 1 meg pots on a single coil guitar, let alone a tele?

 

Yep. It's part of what makes it sound like a Tele. Lower pot values lower the size of the pickup's resonant peak and therefore the treble content, and if you don't like treble, why play a Tele in the first place?

 

But if you wanted a switch on the Tele that took the edge off without making it dull, you could just slap a resistor across the volume pot that made the total around 250K to 100K. Suddenly you no longer have a Tele, but something more like a generic department-store single-coil electric. It still has the Tele bridge sound, and the skinny-pickup sound. It's similar to, but not identical to, turning the tone control down partway.

 

But personally, if I liked the sound of fifties Telecasters, I'd duplicate those parts values. If I liked the sound of sixties or seventies Teles, I'd duplicate those parts values. If you habitually run your Tele through a distortion box turned way up, you might prefer the lower pot values.

 

You can google "four position tele switch" and find a whole bunch of places to buy one mail order. The first page had nearly all entries with four position tele switches, wiring diagrams, and more.