Tele Trouble

[chrisheyes]

I've just put a Piledriver Bridge pickup into my Tokai Breezysound  :D

The Neck and Bridge pickups are working fine individually, however the combined tone is very nasal - phase reversal ??

I've tried swapping the hot and the ground lead conections over on the bridge pickup to the back of the volume pot and 3-Way selector. When I do this I don't get a signal from the pickup.

Any suggestions what I should try next

Cheers

Chris

[FELINEGUITARS]

Chris - that should have fixed it - so something is amiss

Have you got a digital camera
Why not photo the electronics and we will see if there is an obvious answer

 I could be cheeky and suggest a BKP neck pickup which would be a treat, but maybe outside of your budget

[chrisheyes]

Thanks for the reply Feline

I think I've found the source of my woe, it's the 3 way selector switch.
I have to joggle it about to get any tone out of it !

I'm off to the Cumbrian Guitar show on monday so I'll pick one up there. Might even go the whole hog and get a 4 way switch !

A change of neck pickup may not be necessay, it's already a scatter wound one in the traditional way - but by a German Miester  

[FELINEGUITARS]

Cool

If you can't get the switch you want - either Tim, myself or WD can help you out.

The 4 way switch will require that you remove the existing eath wire from the metal casing of the neck pickup and run an extra wire just from that - so that you can do the series link for the two pickups

[chrisheyes]

Cheers Feline  :lol:

Not only was the 3-Way dodgy but there was a sneeky little ground wire from the bridge to the back of the volume pot. This was cancelling out the bridge pickup totally when I reversed the wires.

The answer was to switch the hot and ground wires on the neck pickup ! Doh  :oops:

The stock 3-way switch has a plastic cover which I've opened up and raised the contact points - now that's working too  :D