Converting a Tele to Esquire - wiring help

[bamboofrog]

Apologies if this has already been covered on numerous occasions.

I have been GASing for an esquire for some time, but couldn't justify parting with masses of cash, however a couple of days ago I scored a MIM tele off evilbay for a pretty good price with the intention of rewiring.

However the only thing I've ever rewired is a plug  :lol:- so any advice and diagrams would be appreciated.

[HTH AMPS]

the Seymour Duncan website has every wiring diagram you could ever want, check 'em out dude.

[bamboofrog]

Cheers, i'll check it out! :D

[Philly Q]

Here you go:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=esquire


Twinfan here on the BKP forum has a nice Custom Shop Esquire.  There was quite a bit of discussion about different ways to wire an Esquire with different capacitor values etc.  Might be worth a search.

[Andrew W]

There are a few flavours of Esquire wiring. TDPRI has a lot of them, though their Esquire Wiring page seems to 404 now. Worth searching in their forums for Esquire wiring tips. For example: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technical/297711-esquire-wiring-standard-vs-simple.html. Good luck!

[bamboofrog]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, the Tele should be arriving today and then the experimentation can begin.

[Ratrod]

I prefer the Eldred wiring scheme.

Though the 'neck' position on all Esquires is useless to me, I turned that into a mute.

[Philly Q]

I prefer the Eldred wiring scheme.

That's the name I couldn't remember!  Thanks.  :)

[juansolo]

Our very own Twinfan posted this one to a telecaster board. I used this one on the Telemaster (with different values):

[marauder]

Twinfan's has a 0.033uf between switch and volume pot.

[Afghan Dave]

I love the C**ked wah sound with the right cap in the 1st position.

[juansolo]

I love the C**ked wah sound with the right cap in the 1st position.

Sounds bloody brilliant.

[Loomer]

This looks really neat!

Seeing as I've fallen completely in love with the Piledriver, I might have to try this at some point.

[Philly Q]

Slightly off topic, but since it's an Esquire thread...

.... what would be a good pickup choice for an Equire?  I'm thinking something relatively hot, like a BG50?

[juansolo]

Slightly off topic, but since it's an Esquire thread...

.... what would be a good pickup choice for an Equire?  I'm thinking something relatively hot, like a BG50?

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