6 Way Telecaster Wiring: How to Wire a Free-Way Switch

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3 жыл бұрын

6 Way Telecaster Wiring! In this video we show how to install a Free-Way 3B3-01 (6 position) blade switch into a Telecaster.
The 6 way Tele wiring mod gives the 3 familiar switch positions of a classic Telecaster, as well as series/phase and out of phase switching options. This switch literally obtains every possible combination from 2 single coil pickup guitar.
It is slick and discreet, not requiring the need for any push pull pots or mini toggle switches. All of the switching is done via the switch's 2 different banks of 3 switch positions (3 on either side), the lower bank and the upper bank.
For a full demo of what this switch can do, look no further than Helen Ibe's video here: • How To Get MORE Tones ...
Darrell Braun demo here: • Not Your Typical Telec...
For the wiring diagram (3B3-01 blade switch): www.freewayswitch.com/schemat...
Free-Way 3B3-01 Blade Switch: www.sixstringsupplies.co.uk/p...
Guitar wiring tutorials: • How to Wire an ES 335 ...
Guitar wiring diagrams: sixstringsupplies.co.uk/pages...

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@freewayswitch4026 3 жыл бұрын

Nice informative video, thanks for posting!

@SixStringSupplies 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@therobabides 3 жыл бұрын

These videos are great, please do a video of the gibson style 6way for 3 humbucker (1 V/1 T)! I'm new to wiring and would love to see that video next :) Great channel, learning a lot.

@richardwallace4212 3 жыл бұрын

By far the best videos on KZfaq for guitar wiring. Bought a 10 way for my strat and watched that video and installed it. 6 way arrived this morning, so I am here now for this video.

@asarcadyn2414 Жыл бұрын

I watched this then bought his perfectly soldered harness with Freeway switch included. Just 2 wires from each pickup plus a ground and the input jack to solder. Brilliant👍.

@SixStringSupplies Жыл бұрын

Good work, thank you

@erics.3691 3 жыл бұрын

Just want to say, I appreciciate your down to business approach.

@smokepeddler 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Excellent tutorial, extremely clear and to the point. Clean work.

@runningwithscissors0911 3 жыл бұрын

Another great video. Thank you for the clear close up camera work and the fantastic narration describing your work. Really helps me understand wiring in general and the wonderful Freeway Switch in particular. Please, keep the vids coming!

@BrianAlexSinger 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent videos. Much appreciated. Super helpful. Thank you for doing them.

@Bob-Whiting 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, and my hat's off to Freeway. Their switch is F-ing Legend! Simply brilliant. All blade switch guitars should come stock with them and Evertune bridges too. Let's all move into the future of guitar, eh?

@SixStringSupplies 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@leadstrat Жыл бұрын

Appreciate your videos on wiring! I installed a 10 way switch into my stratocaster and everything worked perfectly. Unfortunately I had some issues with the telecaster switch. Your instructions were spot on as usual, but I could barely fit the electronics back into the cavity. Hooked everything up, and I only have a neck pickup and no lower bank tones nor a neck pickup. Basically I have neck only and top and bottom sounds the same. Sheesh. Going to pop it out and check my connections. I may have very well messed a connection up fighting to get it in there. I’m surprised there’s not much out there on how tight they go into a Telecaster. I have a 2012 American Special. Just thought I’d mention to you guys looking to make this mod. The switch is really nice, but be careful getting everything back in there. I hope I don’t have to use a burring tool to open the inside of the cavity up, or end up putting my stock switch back in. We will see tomorrow!

@LockStoppageSandwich 3 жыл бұрын

Building one now...........so this is perfect

@Bob-Whiting 3 жыл бұрын

Hey I'm first this morning! Love your vids bro. Just great, especially with your new techniques. ;-) Thanks again.

@SixStringSupplies 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks for your support.

@Bob-Whiting 3 жыл бұрын

@@SixStringSupplies What? no heart, Bro! lol!

@kaishaohta 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, I’ve had my eye on a freeway switch for my Tele so this is perfect! Any plans to do any Fender offset guitars, i.e. Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Mustang? I just bought myself a Jaguar to fix up :)

@TheDodger74 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@andrewcorlett2388 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. Can you do this mod with the toggle version of the freeway switch?

@redxerxes 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this video. I just received this Free-Way switch the other day but I have been unable to find a wiring diagram for the HS Tele pickup configuration. I've found HH and SS diagrams. Will your setup in this video work well with this switch in a HS tele?

@Gnasherism 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@alanhall3097 Жыл бұрын

Hey. This clip is so instructive. Thanks very much. Quick question : Do I still require a separate ground wire from the back of the bridge plate?

@PeteMOBie1 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video tutorial. I ordered one of these switches from you and it has just arrived in the mail. There is just one issue ... I'm left handed!!!! Installing it in to a left handed Pacifica 112JL with a P90 humbucker size single coil in the bridge, dummy blanked off middle, and a Strat single coil in the neck. Does that mean that when installed in my guitar the upper bank will give me the standard tele tones and the lower bank is the series and phase reversed options?

@redielg 2 жыл бұрын

I want this for my jazzmaster. Hopefully I can do the same wiring on a toggle switch.

@lachlanplache7148 3 жыл бұрын

Could you wire this similarly to the 5 way half out of phase wiring but with a 6th option?

@ivanhernandez9948 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, please how to wiring a 2 fishman fluence modern humbuckers to 10 freeway switch

@zakkybagis3068 Жыл бұрын

will this work with 2 x P90s ? Great Video

@mauriciomarchant8206 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I need a replacement for a 5 way switch for a Sterling 4HH bass guitar. I never use the single coil configurations that came with the bass (Bridge H, inner singles, HH, outer singles, Neck H). Can I use this switch to get Series (Bridge H, HH, Neck H) and Parallel (Bridge H, HH, Neck H)? Thanks.

@jimmyether 11 ай бұрын

Can you recommend how to wire this same setup but where the tone is only on the bridge pickup? With a traditional tele 3-position switch, you would not wire the tone to the volume, and instead wire the tone to the B1 lead. What would be the equivalent on the Freeway 3B3-03 blade switch?

@paj1015 2 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to put in some resistors, if you have a Tele with 2 humbuckers? So that the humbuckers sees 500K and the the split-modes sees 250K?

@DragisaBoca Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to have the middle up position as series in phase, would make a lot more sense from a players perspective?

2 ай бұрын

Hi, this switch works well with a telecaster that has a P90 in the neck? is something different I need to take into account when wiring?

@ctld5266 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to do it on a Les paul tv special with P90 ?

@Vien0217 3 жыл бұрын

how to fix the wire of HH 3 way switch 2 tone 1 volume? I hope I notice

@Grumpyoldman60 Жыл бұрын

What temp do you set your soldering iron to? great video.

@SixStringSupplies Жыл бұрын

typically around 365 degrees but that is using lead free/silver solder

@biggstile Жыл бұрын

Is this 24 gauge wire? I tried 22 in my freeway Les Paul six way switch but it was too thick to fit in the holes.

@Steinstra-vj7wl 3 жыл бұрын

Can I use this switch on a Stratocaster with 3 pickups and do all the normal 5 -way settings and then with an extra 6 setting?

@SixStringSupplies 3 жыл бұрын

yes, but you would lose a tone control (master volume + master tone) full range of diagrams for these switches are available here: www.freewayswitch.com/schematics-blade/

@Steinstra-vj7wl 3 жыл бұрын

@@SixStringSupplies Great! Thanks so much for your reply. Will do.

@onbedoeldekut1515 3 жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about doing a build with both the six and ten way switches just to give myself a headache!

@SixStringSupplies 3 жыл бұрын

Go for it! Perfect lockdown challenge that is!

@onbedoeldekut1515 3 жыл бұрын

@@SixStringSupplies My first ever wiring job had a 6-way rotary switch, three push-push switches, a 3-way toggle and two Triple-shot humbucker mounts. This should be a piece of cake in comparison!

@cpfs936 3 жыл бұрын

@@onbedoeldekut1515 YOU, sir, are SICK-and I salute you! I can pretty much guess the rest, but what were the 6-way and push-push switches for?

@onbedoeldekut1515 3 жыл бұрын

@@cpfs936 The six-way selected different capacitors and the push switches reversed polarity and phase independent of the triple shot, so I could select individual coils, reverse their polarity, have them out of phase in (almost) any combination. I think there were 1,152 possible configurations if I remember rightly. I'd like to incorporate a high output p-rail type pickup with taps on each coil, that'd give even more range for what's in my head!

@onbedoeldekut1515 3 жыл бұрын

@@cpfs936 I also had a q-filter acting as a global inductor for each capacitor into the tone pot.

@Steinstra-vj7wl 2 жыл бұрын

What does "in-fase" or out-of-fase mean? I know of series or parallel. Thanks !

@50kal44 2 жыл бұрын

When pickups are not reverse wound and reverse polarity they can become either noisy or out of phase. When out of phase they have a kind of wah peddle cocked all the way back, both al green and Brian may are famous for their out of phase tone. I find since it cuts the bass it is good for funky stuff

@flamedmahoganytable9749 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone know how you’d wire this in a reverse tele control plate?

@DIEmicrosoft 2 жыл бұрын

Wire up the same way. IE neck position selects the neck pickup.

@claudioramos2376 2 жыл бұрын

Why don't you disconnect the ground of the bridge pickup instead? It looks much easier

@Steinstra-vj7wl 2 жыл бұрын

So there is this Oak Grigsby 6-way lever switch (available from StewMac) for Strat: could you please do a installation video with a humbucker at the bridge position please? If possible with the bridge and neck combination (Tele setting) where normally the middle pickup would be activate (if that is possible?). www.stewmac.com/electronics/components-and-parts/switches/oak-grigsby-6-way-lever-switch

@Steinstra-vj7wl 2 жыл бұрын

...I guess not...

@MonsieurVersatile 2 жыл бұрын

Top tip when testing pickups: use a metal tuning fork instead of tapping the pickups. It acts exactly like a string. Just hold it above the pick-up you’re testing as it vibrates.

@rutiger6901 Жыл бұрын

Very good tutorial show! I wonder if I may ask you: Can I use that particular switch to wire a stratocaster that's fitted with TWO humbuckers positioned below two single coils on the pick guard?? A four pickup strat.

@cristianbergoglio9865 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. I do exactly the same wiring diagram. The "classic tele" bank work, but the out of phase-line-parallel don't work. neck pick up only on left position, no output on center and right. The switch can be faulty? 😢

@arborways_music Жыл бұрын

I'm having the exact same problem. Did you ever figure it out?

@cristianbergoglio9865 Жыл бұрын

@@arborways_music now it work, but I forget the solution. Sorry, i do it longtime ago. 😑