Telecaster Wiring - Every Solder Joint! Plus Sounds
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- In this video, Radioshop's Paul Best takes you through every solder joint involved in a Standard Telecaster wiring harness. With sounds in the background from our Vintage '52 Telecaster Set.
Not strictly a how to video, but there's plenty of tips to be gleaned from watching - enjoy!
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i really love how this channel takes the gatekeeping out of learning how to tech your own guitars. it's no rocket science, it's actually pretty simple. but one of the big problems with the industry is players being convinced that some mythical knowledge separates them from being able to do the basic repairs and parts changes that come with maintaining a stellar instrument (which eeminds me a lot of the cultural attitude around mechanics; they capitalize off of your ignorance and can charge us whatever because we agree that someone always knows better). SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, people. we can tech our own instruments!
These tips on how to solder and how to put together wiring assembly are true evergreens that will be a great source of knowhow for years to come for aspiring D.I.Y. guitar geezers. Both your soldering videos and your pickups are the best! Thanks for sharing these. Cheers!
agreed!
Nobody acts like this and free resources have been over the internet for decades
Way good. I can see all that you are doing and its really calming to watch. Others try to do it but i can see it all great job.
I wish some day some people that make fabulous videos like you show us how to do it for us mortals left handed players…
Having to imagine everything reversed/mirrored is just an absolute pain 😅
Thanks man, finally I´d learn how to work with that cloth wires
Thank you for such a clear and instructive video. The wiring diagrams I have been looking at show the Tone Cap connected to the outside connecter of the Volume Pot, which is then grounded to the body of the Volume pot, and then the other side of the capacitor connected to the middle connector of the Tone pot. If I can use the wiring you used here it would make it easier because I'm using a modified control plate that shifts to Volume knob closer to the Tone knob, and I don't have as much space between the caps.
Beautiful, neat work. Well done. 🎸
So satisfying and pleasant
🎉merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo
hello, are your pots in contact with the Tele plate? if yes, is it necessary to connect the ground of the 2 pots together with a wire? I think they are already connected, because each ground pots touches the plate. or is the an isolation ring between the pots and the plates? great video :)
Thanks for the tips etc.
I am considering your pickups for an old squier JV 62 Strat upgrade project.
Thank you Graham! Give us a shout if you need any help at all!! Paul
I was surprised that you didn't need to pre-tin the pot lugs like at @2:13. If the wire is tinned before installing in the lug, is that enough? This is a great idea for a video - thank you!
I wish I was this good at soldering. Definitely my weak spot.
Great video! Just curious. Have you considered just hooking on (and then soldering) ground wires onto the wire you used to ground the lug to the case on the volume pot? Seems like that would save a lot of time and if/when you mod or replace parts, it's easier and cleaner to remove.
Nice work! You don't depend on the control plate to do your grounding between pots? Good, me neither! But I'm sure I've seen it before and I didn't like it!
Beware of the toxic fumes
Noice 🤙
I hate to have to tell you this, but you’re soldering incorrectly. Everyone does this, and I have to remind myself not to do it, but you don’t add solder to your iron and use the iron to plop solder onto a joint. This is incorrect. Rather you 1) clean your iron tip with a damp sponge. 2) tin your tip with a tiny bit of solder. 3) apply your tip to whatever you’re soldering until the metal heats up 4) apply solder not to your iron, but to your connection.
You should also make sure each connection is mechanically connected before it’s soldered. Each wire end should connect to a lug or solder point in an “L” hook.
Thank you for this comment! I was scared no-one was going to say this. Without the mechanical connection one is essentially "tack" soldering. Does it work? -YES... is it as strong and durable? -NO... (and just like everyone else-I tack solder sometimes too, but not on clients guitars or gear.) Thanks, Alvagold
Not left handed though
Love the video, but, man!,the guitar playing is really annoying!
A good thing you're not into electronics. You use far too much solder and waste wire. I personally don't like the way you do it. My view only, but thanks anyway for providing this video.
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