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Pre-Wired Telecaster Compatible Wiring Kit CTS pots, Orange Drops, CRL 3-Way Switch

Pre-Wired Telecaster Compatible Wiring Kit CTS pots, Orange Drops, CRL 3-Way Switch

SKU:PW-TC-01_S

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Treble Bleed

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Pre-wired Telecaster Compatible Wiring Kit - USA Standard

Our pre-wired kit for Telecaster (USA Standard) consists of some of the best components available, and is perfect for improving the overall tone and performance of your Tele.

Compatibility

Our Telecaster compatible wiring kit will fit genuine Fender guitars, and is also compatible with Squier/import instruments with a little modification. When installing on a Squier or import guitar, you may need to widen the control knob holes to ensure the pots fit. You may also need to replace your current guitar knobs with their imperial sized cousins.

All of our kits come with an easy to follow wiring diagram. For help on using our Stratocaster Standard wiring kit please refer to our video guide on wiring a USA Telecaster

The Telecaster Wiring Kit includes:

  • 2 x 250k or 500k Matched audio taper pots (10% tolerance)
  • 1 x Capacitor (Orange Drop or Paper in Oil)
  • 2ft Gavitt black cloth push-back wire
  • 2ft Gavitt white cloth push-back wire
  • 1 x CRL USA 3 way switch
  • 1 x Switchcraft USA 1/4'' jack socket
  • Heat shrink tubing

The components are installed onto one of our own aluminum control shields. You can remove this before transferring the parts to you guitar or alternativley leave it in place, as the shield will help with reducing the hum athat can be a problem when touching the control knobs and plate on many Telecaster models.

Orange Drop Capacitor

Orange Drop capacitors are often described as ’bright’ sounding and their primary benefit comes from their reliability, they essentially never go wrong. For a professional guitarist, stability and consistency is what you need in an instrument that has to play shows night after night, which is exactly why Orange Drop capacitors are so popular amongst guitarists and guitar builders.

CTS Audio Taper Pots

CTS pots are typically used by higher end guitar builders and techs but this is not due to any difference in tone. The main reason cited for using CTS pots is that they will last longer due to a more sturdy construction, and for that reason you’ll often find them used in USA-made guitars and guitar gear.

We supply audio taper pots for both volume and tone as these produce a smoother and more rounded sweep. All pots are metered and matched to ensure a perfect balance of tone and volume across all switch positions.

Switchcraft Mono Output Jack

Large guitar manufacturers will very often cut corners by using cheaper components, particularly on the input jack. Switchcraft have a great reputation for using only the highest quality materials in their components, providing a significant durability and performance upgrade over cheaper parts. 

Cloth Push Back Wire

Push back cloth wire features regularly on high end and vintage guitars, providing easy usability for neat and tidy wiring jobs. It's double insulated to prevent you burning through the outer wire and there's no need for wire stripping thanks to its push- back design.

Paper-in-Oil Cap Upgrade

Want an extra vintage tone upgrade? Add Paper-in-Oil caps instead of Orange Drop. Paper in Oil (PIO) capacitors are an older technology, highly sought after primarily due to their use in many vintage instruments such as 50s era Gibsons. The capacitor is literally filled with paper and a special oil before being sealed in thermoplastic, delivering a darker, warmer and smoother tone.

Heastshrink Tubing 

Perfect for insulating joints, and for funnelling wires through tight spots. An excellent and inexpensive way of keeping your wiring tidy. You will need a heat gun or the shaft of a soldering iron to shrink the tubing once fitted!

Treble Bleed Upgrade

This 0.001uF capacitor together with a 130k resisitor are soldered to your volume control, resulting in a more uniform sweep from 1-10 and preventing treble loss at lower volumes

Will this fit my guitar?

Our wiring kit for Telecaster will fit all genuine Fender USA/MIM Telecasters and will also fit the majority of Telecaster type guitars and imported models.

Many imported models use the smaller Alpha pots, so it may be neccesary to drill your pickguard holes to 10mm diameter to accommodate the larger USA pot shafts. If you are upgrading your Alpha pots to CTS then you will also need to purchase imperial control knobs that fit the larger CTS pot shafts.

All of our kits come with an easy to follow wiring diagram. For help on using our Tele wiring kit please refer to our video guide on Wiring a Telecaster

Please note: All our wiring circuits are built to order. During busy periods it can take up to 2 working days for us to build and despatch your pre-wired kit.

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Rich Farrington
Pre-wired telecaster wiring kit CTS pots, orange drops, CRL 3 way switch

Absolutely excellent piece of kit. Very tidily put together. Perfect drop-in fit. Swift delivery. I know it's hard to get excited over a switch and a couple of pots, but if this is what you're after I can't recommend it highly enough. We'll priced too when compared to others available.

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Graham Stockley
Perfect

Great service, high quality product.

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Peter Roff
This mod has made good guitar just brilliant

A while ago I bought a Vintage V52 reissue. A cheap tele, but with pickups and hardware breathed on by Trevor Wilkinson. From first play I felt there might be more to get from the pickups. The NWG wiring kit has proved to be the answer. The difference in tone across all three positions is night and day and the V52 has become the guitar I will never part with. It would have been five stars, but I had to redo on of the component connections.

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Nedim Kirlic
Excellent!

Quality parts, perfectly soldered, beautifully wired! The orange drop cap keeps your tone when you lower your volume, which is very different to me, but good to not disappear in mud when I turn down the volume on the guitar.

Great customer service! I had some questions and I got answers that helped me decide and get the right thing for my guitar.

Just make sure that you have though of all these things, like I have:
The plate that the pre-wired kit (harness) comes on isn't supposed to be the plate you put on your guitar, though you could put it under your regular plate. If you have an existing plate, make sure that the US diameter pots that are used here can fit through the holes. The same goes for your knobs. You need the right sized knobs for the pots (1/2 inch, US size), and the screw nut for your jack plate must also be imperial, not metric.

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John Bryan
Tele wiring kit

very tidy wellmade with top notch components eg: cts pots,3 way switch. you can`t go wrong.buy it with confidence.