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Well, yesterday I went searching through my digital camera and guess what I found (aside from pictures of a new pet snake which was the reason I had the camera in the first place)? Pictures of the underside of the teisco’s pickguard from back in September, with a close up of the switch! Apparently I got it right when I soldered it back together according to the pictures. And also apparently, they don’t seem to hum cancel intentionally.
If I get the chance, I’ll upload the pictures for future reference to these forums, just in case someone else searches the internet for hours like I did trying to find out the same info. ________ [URL=http://herbalairevaporizer.com]herbalaire[/URL]
Edit: whoops! Ignore the earlier message I had up here.
Anyway, I soldered it back together in an alternating pattern (R-W-R-W), pickups seem to work just fine. Only thing is, no hum canceling. However, I don’t think they were meant to be. It is a guitar from the sixties after all, strats didn’t have hum canceling till like the 80’s, and didn’t even have 2 and 4 positions on their switches till like, the 70’s (if my memory serves me right, because I distinctly remember Jimi Hendrix being the one who popularized the entire use of matchsticks and the like to wedge a strat switch in a makeshift “2” or “4” position). I think all in all it is supposed to just be two pickups of the same polarity at once, which sounds good because it makes the sound fatter/hotter, I like it. Also, since potting the pickups, the guitar has been strangely silent even at really loud volumes. Then you hit a string and you blow the windows out of the room, it’s actually kinda creepy that it can remain so silent, but I like it 😆 .
Anyway, maybe I made a wiring error, but it sounds good to me!
Edit2: And yes, they are single coils. ________ [URL=http://www.bmw-tech.org/wiki/BMW_M102]BMW M102 history[/URL]
I’ve been there, and while the switch looks to be identical, the wiring is different, which doesn’t really help me 😥 .
I know where the wires were soldered to, just not which color goes where. I know the black wires are grounds that were soldered from the pickup casing to the top area of the switch. The neck pickups black wire was soldered to the first point from the top left, the bridge to the 3rd point from the top left. The white and red wires were soldered towards the bottom of the switch, in what I believe to have been an alternating pattern. Such as white-red-white-red or red-white-red-white. The red and white cords are attached to different ends of each coil. The way the wires look, it seems that the order was red-white-red-white, but I can’t be sure without my diagram.
Btw, would it matter if the white and red wires were switched? I mean, they both are just connected to the coil, what happens if they get reversed? ________ [URL=http://marijuanaseeds.org/]marijuana seeds[/URL]
