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Wiring diagram
Prewired Tele comparison
About volume kits
This is a prewired assembly for a Telecaster, which includes the two pots, the switch, the jack, and the tone circuit all wired and ready to drop into your guitar. This assembly ships on a genuine Fender control plate, and includes genuine Fender dome knobs and round switch tip as would typically be found on a '60s Tele.
We use only the best components for our prewired assemblies:
| Fender Control Plate and Knobs | We use genuine Fender control plates and knobs for these Tele assemblies. This assembly uses the dome knobs and round switch tip that would typically be found on a '60s Tele. |
| CTS 250k Audio-Taper Pots | These are the pots used for the last several decades by nearly all US guitar companies, including Fender, Gibson, PRS, Hamer, etc. The standard of the industry. We use the low-torque models with the tip-bearing cover (the dimpled center) so that they have the correct Fender feel (other CTS models with a flat back have a noticeably higher turning resistance). Ordered directly from CTS by us for this application, and in the tightest tolerance available from CTS, these are the right pots for your Tele. The threaded bushing is 1/4" long, so they're perfect for mounting onto a control plate, but will not work on rear-routed guitars where the bushing must be long enough to pass through the guitar's top. |
| Oak-Grigsby 4-Way Switch | This is the switch brand used by Fender in all current US Strat/Tele production. |
| Switchcraft L11 Jack | We use the L11 rather than the more common 11, because it has a slightly longer threaded bushing than the standard Switchcraft jack, so you'll have enough threads to get the proper washers on and still be able to get the nut on. |
| Orange Drop .047µF Capacitor | The tone cap determines how much treble goes away when you roll off the tone control. The cap's material is irrelevant, so contrary to what you might read on the Internet, and even in magazines, a paper-in-oil or polypropylene cap will sound the same in your guitar as a cheap ceramic disk cap, given equivalent values. Many people will dispute this, but ask the experts: Jason Lollar, Lindy Fralin, John Suhr. In a passive tone control, such as that used in a guitar, the signal that passes through the cap is shunted straight to ground, out of the signal path. When your tone control is fully clockwise, you won't hear any difference between different cap values, as the cap's not being presented to the signal. Turn the control counter-clockwise though, and a higher-value cap will roll off more of the treble frequencies than a lower-value cap. |
| Vintage-Style Cloth Wire | We use cloth wire because it's traditional and we feel it's nicer to work with than PVC or PTFE-insulated wire. The conductor is the same regardless of insulation - 22 AWG stranded copper, tinned - so the sound is no different than any 22AWG copper wire would provide. |