Telecaster style wiring

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Permalink Reply by Skeesix on September 25, 2010 at 11:18pm

If I understand your question, which is can I use a Duncan 5-2 in the bridge position, and a Guitar Fetish Alnico Tele pickup in the neck position - I don't see why not.

Are you thinking that the different magnet strengths would make them incompatible?

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Permalink Reply by Craig Winkelmann on September 25, 2010 at 11:31pm

Just make sure that one pickup is north and the other one is south, otherwise it could get buzzy.

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Permalink Reply by Manic8-Ball on September 26, 2010 at 2:14am

ya thought the magnets might interact and make some buzzing thanks 8 >

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Permalink Reply by Reverend Hellgood on September 27, 2010 at 1:00am

When wiring sigle coil pickups, if you wire one of them with the leads reversed, that will put them out of phase (which will cancel out that single coil hum. So, with the pickups out of phase, you will have no hum when both pickups are engaged, and your normal 60 cycle hum when using the pickups individually. When you wire two single coils this way you are essentially making a humbucker, when both pichups are engaged.

Manic8-Ball said:

ya thought the magnets might interact and make some buzzing thanks 8 >

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Permalink Reply by Manic8-Ball on September 27, 2010 at 11:54am

Thanks that helps a lot 8)

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