Pickup Changes?

[the tourist]

My Tele has humbuckers. I've been thinking of changing them out for single-coil. Any recommendations? How hard is it to do?

 

[the tourist]

 

[Chill Mike D]

I've never done it myself, and that's probably because I only own one electric and am not really technically inclined the way a person needs to be to do this kind of thing.

That being said, from what I've read, changing pickups in a guitar is not terribly difficult for anyone that has basic electrical wiring skills. I think a big part of the difficulty depends on what kind of guitar you're doing it to. I believe Les Pauls are more difficult than some other models. Your Telecaster might be more simple.

Try these forums because I'm sure somebody there could tell you all about it:

Telecaster Guitar Forum

 

[the tourist]

I found the pickups I'm gonna put in my tele. They're pretty amazing and give you the option of single-coil, p-90, and humbucker (in series and parallel) with pull pots....

Progressive - P-Rails SHPR-1 - Seymour Duncan/Basslines

 

[Chill Mike D]

Holy shit, those are the same pickups I plan on putting into my Rogue HH. I want to get a 10-way switch or something so I can have every combination imaginable.

Right now I'm debating taking the stock pickups out of my Epiphone LP and putting Burstbucker Pros in it.

 

[the tourist]

Yeah, I'm just gonna do the pull pot thing since my Tele only has one volume knob and one tone knob and I don't want to drill any new holes or anything in case someday I put in other pickups or something. I think there are only 4 options for the usage of each pickup, though... unless you want a selector that controls the usage of each pickup AND which pickups are active. I'll just use my normal 3-way switch for that, though. But I'm excited--this guitar's gonna sound huge through my ac30 now... especially since it's semi-hollow. Come on, tax return!