EsquireAS, sort of

stickyfiddle

The recent "What mods have you done and regretted" thread I got to thinking about my black Tele. And then I said "fuck it" got the tools out. And now I have an modern-bridged-Esquire with a hole in the scratchplate

Still think it wants a rosewood-board neck and some kind of clever wiring but feels right at the moment. Anyone want to buy a Bigsby that's spent a year living in Abu Dhabi?

PS - anyone know any good Esquire switching options?

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/stickyfiddle/2014-06/0733F38E-1199-4C4B-9DF8-07F687B48642_zpso2dup6cu.jpg

jd0272

Ah, now it's proper, you see? Loads of wiring options on't interweb. Best if yer handy with the iron tho. You wanna get that hole fixed before you lose stuff down it too!

stickyfiddle

Yeah - I'll have a google on the wiring. Not much you can do with one untapped pickup though. Various cap/cocked way type stuff I guess. 

Christ knows where I'll get a new guard and any wiring I don't have in parts box out here though. I think there's a guy in the far end of Dubai somewhere. This might be a good time to make a visit

ICBM

The stock Esquire wiring scheme (vol only/vol and tone/vol and preset bass) is surprisingly good, although you might want to adjust the cap values to make it sound less muddy. If you really don't like the preset bass, try bypass/vol only/vol and tone.

koneguitarist

Mine is wired complete bypass, then through vol and tone, then the Eldred mod. You can tweak the resistor and cap values on Eldred mod to suit.

Clean it sounds pretty naff, but through a TS type pedal, welcome to LP territory !

koneguitarist

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7440801/Guitar Wiring/Esquire3-Way3.jpg

This is all you need. 

koneguitarist

https://sites.google.com/site/phostenixwiringdiagrams/teles/esquires This gives you a whole range of options.

stickyfiddle

Cheers, Kone. I've done a fair bit of reading while watching the F1 and it sounds like your wiring is exactly what I'll try. Will have a look what caps I have in stock

DrBob

matte black single ply Esquire plate on that would look evil cool !

jd0272

That's what's on mine.

stickyfiddle

Just done the "Eldred", as below. It's great! Tone knob now feels a bit too dark when all the way down which I hadn't noticed before. So that'll get a smaller cap or bigger pot (of course I think of that and realise I didn't check the cap value *after* I've put it back together)

Anyway, thanks for suggestions. Esquires are awesome. Now to find a rosewood neck from somewhere that'll ship to the middle east..!

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7440801/Guitar Wiring/Esquire3-WayEldred2.jpg

ICBM

stickyfiddle said:

Tone knob now feels a bit too dark when all the way down which I hadn't noticed before. So that'll get a smaller cap or bigger pot (of course I think of that and realise I didn't check the cap value *after* I've put it back together)

Smaller cap. The pot value makes no difference when it's all the way down .

stickyfiddle

Cheers