u/IHIDBYD

Hi all

A request for help from anyone that's for a Fender JD Tele (the Japanese version of the Fender custom shop)!!

I switched out the original neck pickup - a strat neck pickup - today for a gold foil. I've done it before and no problems.

However this time around I was in a bit of a rush and didn't pay enough attention to the wiring through the 5 way switch.

I've given up for now, but whereas the switching arrangement should be

  1. Bridge, 2. Out of phase strat quack, 3. Both pickups, 4. Neck with tone control, 5. Neck only - tone bypassed

I've ended up with

  1. Bridge, 2. Out of phase strat quack (but much darker due to the gold foil I think), 3. Bridge only, 4. Both pickups, but I think out of phase as the sound is very thin, 5. Neck with tone control

Does anyone with a JD Tele have any photos of their wiring that they could share with me? I'm not too bad at soldering, so grounding etc is not an issue. But I don't really understand guitar wiring and have been unable to troubleshoot experiment so far.

Any help (and I appreciate I'll probably get quite a bit of stick/criticism too!) is much appreciated!!

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u/IHIDBYD — 13 days ago