Two...two....two Tele's in one!

[sunvalleylaw]

Ditto! That looks great! I love the tort PG too!

[Tig***]

That turned out great! If it sounds half as good as it looks, you did quite well, even for a mad scientist.

[M29]

[duhvoodooman***]

Thanks for the new avatar, Tig!

[Tig***]

Thanks for the new avatar, Tig!

Yer welcome
(courtesy of Google)

These pesky CV Tele's are getting in the way of my wife's guitar embargo!

[andyguitar85]

Good work. Looks sweet!

[duhvoodooman***]

If anyone's interested, I posted a clip recorded using the new neck mini-'bucker HERE.

[sunvalleylaw]

I listened and think it sounds great! Nice neck sound. This guitar and mod is on my "one of these days" list. Thanks for sharing your idea and experience/clips.

[duhvoodooman***]

Day-um!!! Those b*stards at Seymour Duncan stole my idea!

http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazin...ge_System.aspx

[sunvalleylaw]

Cool! When I finish paying off my CV Tele, I was thinking I might do your mod. This looks like it makes it that much easier. The part you used looks smaller though, and I bet is cheaper.

[sunvalleylaw]

Vood, having looked at this, your thoughts please on getting their deal vs. going and getting the parts your way?

[Brian Krashpad]

Cool!

I'm lazy though. Would never have the patience for all that wiring work. I did it the simple way.

One Tele with 2 singles and '50's wiring:



One Tele with full size splittable neckbucker and 5-way switching:



And one Tele with a Seymour Duncan mini in the neck and 3-way switching:



Lot less work this way.

[duhvoodooman***]

It's been over two years since I posted this, and I have been running this CV '50s Tele with the neck mini-humbucker all that time. But I think it's time to check out something new, namely ONE OF THESE. I have my eye on an eBay auction now that will save me a few $$ if I win it. These P-Rails pickups will function in 3 separate modes--as a rail-style single coil, as a P90, and as a hybrid bumbucker with the two connected in series. Because you want to be able to split & use either coil of the P-Rails, the usual 2-position/on-on push-pull pot will not work for this purpose--it requires a 3-position on-off-on switch to give all three pickup configurations. I have never seen a 3-position push-pull pot, so I'm looking at using an on-off-on SPDT mini-toggle mounted through the pickguard. They're small, so I'm sure I can find a place to mount it where it will be out of the way. I'll also need to get a Tele pickguard that's cut for a full-size humbucker in the neck position, but that's NOT A PROBLEM.

The one problem I see is that the way the switching for the P-Rails works, I can't come up with a way to wire it that avoids losing the bridge pickup signal for one of the three bridge-neck-in-series combos. Whichever coil is split by shunting its output to ground will take the bridge signal with it, since the both-in-series setting on the 4-way pickup selector switch is wired so that the bridge pickup signal feeds into the humbucker. I'm pretty sure I could get around that by using a second switch or by completely rewiring the 4-way, but I really don't want to do either. No big deal--9 different pickup combinations instead of 10!

Will update this thread as the project unfolds....

[Tig***]

I've always been curious about P-Rails.

[duhvoodooman***]

Me, too, obviously! I've yet to read a bad review. Everybody who tries them seems to love their tonal versatility.

[kidsmoke*]

I've always been curious about P-Rails.

Me, too, obviously! I've yet to read a bad review. Everybody who tries them seems to love their tonal versatility.

i spend a lot of time on the Heritage Forum. There are a fair amount of corksniffers, as well as some very demanding but pragmatic journeyman musicians. Without exception everyone who's tried them loves them. I think it sounds pretty cool.

[sunvalleylaw]

Sounds cool! One of those in a jazzmaster could be cool.

[piebaldpython***]

Sounds way cool.......like slide guitar heaven being able to go 'bucker.....to SC.......to P90......all in the flip of a mini-toggle. I'm DROOLING at the prospects.

[duhvoodooman***]

Sounds way cool.......like slide guitar heaven being able to go 'bucker.....to SC.......to P90......all in the flip of a mini-toggle. I'm DROOLING at the prospects.

I leave this guitar tuned to open G all the time, and play (badly!) a bit of slide on it (when I'm not banging out Keef riffs). So what you're referring to is a big part of what I'm going for, Pie....