Description
Hoagland Custom, located in sunny Fernandina Beach, Florida, has specialized in custom guitar wiring and pickup making for over 25 years…
& we love what we do!
First – this is a REVERSE-WIRED Tele wiring harness… That is, the switch is on the bottom and the volume is on the top.
NOW… If you think that the regular Tele 4-way switching positions are a little weird… you’ll LOVE this wiring harness!
Normal Tele 4-way switches have the following positions:
- P1 – bridge pickup
- P2 – bridge & neck pickups, in-parallel (normal Tele tones)
- P3 – neck pickup
- P4 – bridge & neck pickups, in-series (a 15%boost in power and much better tone)
For a lot of people, that’s kind of a strange order. So, we’ve developed a more natural 4-way switching order with the bridge & neck combinations in P-2 & P-3.
We’ve developed this switching order:
- P1 – bridge pickup only
- P2 – neck & bridge, in-parallel (normal Tele tone)
- P3 – neck & bridge, in-series (a 15%boost in power and much better tone!)
- P4 – neck pickup only
This REVERSED Tele wiring harness will give you an additional switch position and a cool extra tone that your standard 3-way Tele does not have.
It is a 4-way “series/parallel switching Telecaster wiring harness BUT…
It has different switching positions than a normal Tele 4-way.
4 switching positions that make more sense than the standard Tele 4-way.
HARDWARE: (included at no additional charge are dress nuts & washers and switch mounting screws)
- optional chrome control plate & mounting screws
- optional chrome “slanted switch” control plate & mounting screws
- optional black control plate & mounting screws
- optional gold control plate & mounting screws
- optional nickel control plate & mounting screws
- optional “Pure Tone” premium output jack
AVAILABLE TONE CAPACITORS:
- Sprague “Orange Drop” poly tone capacitor, as standard – .022mfd value
- MojoTone Dijon Premium Foil/Film tone capacitor, $3 upgrade – .022mfd value (From the manufacturer: “Mojotone Dijon capacitors are high quality foil/film capacitors made to our exact specification. We like to call them musical capacitors because of their great tone and transparency.”)
- Mallory “Mustard” tone capacitor, $4 upgrade – .022mfd value
- Centralab “Royal Blue” mylar-in-oil tone capacitor, $13 upgrade – .022mfd value
- Emerson Custom “Yellow” premium paper-in-oil capacitor, $28 upgrade – .022mfd value
NEW! SWITCHING POSITIONS:
- P1 – bridge pickup only
- P2 – neck & bridge pickups, in-parallel (normal Tele tone)
- P3 – neck & bridge, in-series (a 15% boost in power and much better tone!)
- P4 – neck pickup only
STANDARD INCLUDES:
- REVERSE-WIRED
- 1 CTS or Bourns Pro Series volume control, 500k value, short-shaft, audio taper
- 1 CTS or Bourns Pro Series tone control, 500k value, short-shaft, linear taper
- Sprague “Orange Drop” poly capacitor, .022mfd value
- 4-way lever style switch w/positions modification
- Switchcraft mono output jack
- Gavitt vintage style, cloth covered wire
- tech support phone & email
While all of our wiring solutions are built to be installed rather easily, every guitar is different. We always recommend that you have a professional guitar technician at your local guitar shop install it for you. They are experienced troubleshooters and are equipped to get the best from your setup!
