The company’s new ‘Telecaster Wiring Mod’ offers both a standard tone control and a pickup blend via a stacked concentric pot in the tone control position. My prayers have been answered!

Pots Beyond Tone And Volume Control Back in 1950, Fender released their very first electric guitar, the Esquire, featuring a single bridge pickup.

In position one (switch all the way back pointing to the bottom of the guitar) the pickup is wired to the volume control only, taking the tone potentiometer and capacitor out of the equation. This ...

We’ve chosen a .022µF to give a decent range to the tone controls. On a tone pot circuit you will attenuate (bleed) treble through the potentiometer then through the capacitor, similarly on a volume ...

Next in the chain is the tone control. As this is a master tone control the output from the pickup selector is where the single hot wire comes from. The middle leg of the tone pot will need two wires; ...

In the middle position the tone pot and cap are added to the circuit, resulting in the same setting and similar tones as a Telecaster’s bridge pickup-only setting. The third position (full ...