50s wiring help please..

guitarcookie1

My Telemaster is going to be wired to a three-way blade switch like this:

https://i.imgur.com/omqEHoT.jpg

If I wanted to wire this 50s style is it just a case of:

1) Removing the wire that connects the bottom/end of side a to the top/start of side b;
2) Moving the wire that connects side b to the volume pot so that it now connects the volume pot to the bottom/end of side a; and
3) Adding a new connection from the top/start of side b to the middle tag of the volume pot.

I’ve probably got it completely wrong...

ICBM

4) Move the wire that connects the tone control to the volume control to the middle terminal of the volume control.

You don't need to do anything with the switch wiring, although if you want to improve reliability you can connect each pickup to the corresponding terminal on the lower side of the switch as well as the upper - ie three wires which would be vertical lines in that drawing.

NB, if you mean '50s style' I assume you mean *Gibson* 50s style - Fender never used that arrangement in the 50s.

guitarcookie1

ICBM said:

4) Move the wire that connects the tone control to the volume control to the middle terminal of the volume control.

You don't need to do anything with the switch wiring, although if you want to improve reliability you can connect each pickup to the corresponding terminal on the lower side of the switch as well as the upper - ie three wires which would be vertical lines in that drawing.

NB, if you mean '50s style' I assume you mean *Gibson* 50s style - Fender never used that arrangement in the 50s.

Yes, mean Gibson 50s style

Sorry for sounding dull, but is it (4) only that needs to be done & ignore 1-3?

Funkfingers

guitarcookie1 said:

Sorry for sounding dull, but is it (4) only that needs to be done & ignore 1-3?

If you perform steps 1 and 2 described in your opening post, the second pole of the selector switch will be completely out of circuit.

Unless you follow ICBM's suggestion to double up the pickup connections to both poles of the selector switch, your step 3 will be redundant. (No signal to carry!)

ICBM

guitarcookie1 said:

Sorry for sounding dull, but is it (4) only that needs to be done & ignore 1-3?

Yes.

guitarcookie1

ICBM said:

guitarcookie1 said:

Sorry for sounding dull, but is it (4) only that needs to be done & ignore 1-3?

Yes.

Thank you