This kit is specifically wired up to bypass the tone circuit for the neck pickup. This allows greater clairty and range in positions 2 & 3. Also because the tone only affects the bridge pickup you can dial in your bridge perfectly without muddying your neck pickup!
3-Way kits for Tele® are Emerson Custom's most popular prewired kit.. and for good reason; They improve your tone! We take great pride in using premium components that work and sound better than stock electronics found in your guitar. These pots are hand metered and matched for great consistency and even taper on both the volume and tone knob (better control when rolling down the volume knob... no more mud) Emerson Paper in Oil capacitors sound amazing! Paper in Oil capacitors were used in vintage Fender and Gibsons for good reason... They sound amazing. Emerson Custom kits are painstaking wired by hand one at a time in Bixby, Oklahoma, USA. Emerson Custom takes great pride in their solder work and neatness on their prewired kits. They build their kits to last a very long time and perform great. We think you will appreciate the detail both sonically and visually that goes into each and every one of Emerson Custom's prewired kits.
This is a 3-Way Tele prewired assembly for Telecaster style guitars featuring 2 single coil pickups. It will drop into most American Fender Teles with no modification. **(If purchasing the Reverse control plate kit please see install notes below)**
Wired with 22 AWG vintage push-back wire for that vintage look and sound. Soldered connections to the input jack are insulated with heat-shrink to ensure durability and long life. If you are installing this on an import guitar with metric sized pots you may need to ream your control plate holes to accept the slightly larger US-Spec pots and buy US-Spec knobs.
Includes
- (2) Emerson PREMIER PRO Solid Shaft Shaft Pots
- (1) Oak Grigsby OR Centralab 3-Way Switch
- (1) Switchcraft 1/4" Mono Input Jack
- (1) 0.047uf Emerson Paper in Oil Capacitor *(0.022uf are used with 500K-Ohm Pots Option)*
- (1) Volume Mod
- Wiring Diagram
Additional Information
**BUILT & SPACED FOR USE ON STANDARD USA FENDER STYLE TELE CONTROL PLATES. CENTER TO CENTER OF VOLUME AND TONE POTS IS 2.50 INCHES. IMPORT GUITAR'S CONTROL PLATES MAY BE SPACED DIFFERENTLY**
Reverse Control Plate Setup Note: Volume, Tone & 3-way Switch. (Volume Control is parallel to the bridge pickup for players that like to use their volume knob a lot for swells and more overall control). **Due to the nature of "flipping your controls" you may have to modify your existing cavity route by lengthening the area underneath the the control plate to fit the reverse control layout.**
**Control Plate, Switch Tip or Knobs Not Included**