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    Telecaster-Singlebucking" How To Make A Strat-Style-Pickup (Humbucker) Fit in A Telecaster-Bridge"

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    This document provides instructions for modifying a Strat-style humbucker pickup to fit into the bridge of a Telecaster guitar. It is a 3-step process: [1] Cut off the mounting ears of the humbucker pickup; [2] Grind and modify the pickup and mounting plate to fit into the Telecaster bridge; [3] Secure the pickup and wiring to complete the installation without modifying the guitar body. The modifications allow a humbucker pickup to be used as a replacement where typically only a single-coil pickup would fit.

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    Telecaster-Singlebucking" How To Make A Strat-Style-Pickup (Humbucker) Fit in A Telecaster-Bridge"

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    This document provides instructions for modifying a Strat-style humbucker pickup to fit into the bridge of a Telecaster guitar. It is a 3-step process: [1] Cut off the mounting ears of the humbucker pickup; [2] Grind and modify the pickup and mounting plate to fit into the Telecaster bridge; [3] Secure the pickup and wiring to complete the installation without modifying the guitar body. The modifications allow a humbucker pickup to be used as a replacement where typically only a single-coil pickup would fit.

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    This document provides instructions for modifying a Strat-style humbucker pickup to fit into the bridge of a Telecaster guitar. It is a 3-step process: [1] Cut off the mounting ears of the humbucker pickup; [2] Grind and modify the pickup and mounting plate to fit into the Telecaster bridge; [3] Secure the pickup and wiring to complete the installation without modifying the guitar body. The modifications allow a humbucker pickup to be used as a replacement where typically only a single-coil pickup would fit.

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    Telecaster-Singlebucking" How To Make A Strat-Style-Pickup (Humbucker) Fit in A Telecaster-Bridge"

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    George Gryphone
    This document provides instructions for modifying a Strat-style humbucker pickup to fit into the bridge of a Telecaster guitar. It is a 3-step process: [1] Cut off the mounting ears of the humbucker pickup; [2] Grind and modify the pickup and mounting plate to fit into the Telecaster bridge; [3] Secure the pickup and wiring to complete the installation without modifying the guitar body. The modifications allow a humbucker pickup to be used as a replacement where typically only a single-coil pickup would fit.

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    „Telecaster-Singlebucking“

    or
    „How to make a Strat-Style-Pickup (Humbucker)
    fit in a Telecaster-bridge“

     by Magnus Plaue ([email protected])

    Today changing guitar-pickups is an easy work for us


    - just moving some screws, desoldering the old pickup,
    soldering the new pickup and tighten some screws – that's all!

    But if you look at your Telecaster it's completely different


    and the more difficult if you don't buy a pickup
    that correctly fits into your Telecaster's bridge ;-)

    Here's my variant for a complete solution how to make


    your Strat-Style-Pickup (Humbucker) fit in a Telecaster-bridge:

    This is a typical Telecaster-Pickup (Singlecoil)


    with a three-screw-mounting
    (you can adjust it's height on the bridge with those three screws):
    As you can see on this picture the new humbucker doesn't fit
    in this Telecaster because of its usual „mounting-ears“
    left and right of the pickup - just too big for this shape...

    With the following tools you can fix your problem:


    The first step is to remove the old pickup
    completely from its mounting-plate

    After this step it should look like that:


    Now we have to cut off the humbucker's ears
    (It doesn't help to stretch them – just a german idiom ;-) :

    After this step it should look like that:


    The next step is to grind the edges of the pickup (carefully!)

    Subsequently the magnet of the old pickup has to be removed


    – otherwise it would influence the new pickup in a negative way!
    A hammer may do a good job (only if you use it carefully ;-)
    The bottom metal-plate can be grinded a bit
    and a new iron-dot with a short cable can be placed:

    Now we have to mount a spacer


    where the magnet once was fitted...
    The old pickup-plate should do a great job here now!
    (Of course I removed the old polepieces before):
    The next step is to glue the plastic bottom-plate
    on top of the new spacer...
    The screws and springs do a good job
    with their pressure while the epoxy is drying:

    Subsequently the new pickup


    can be fixed with epoxy
    (On this picture: a Humbucker in Singlecoil-size with „blades“)
    At last you have to solder the green ground-wire
    to the ground-connection on your new pickup.
    Now the screws - which are connected to the plate -
    carry the signal to the bridge and strings to eliminate hum.

    The pickup wire can be installed like before


    through the cable-mounting-hole.

    It should look like this finally:


    Now the pickup is ready to be installed
    on the bridge of your Telecaster
    without any wood-work on your guitar-body...

    Good luck on your modifying ;-)


    Magnus

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