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In order for 3 single coil pickups to be in TRUE humbucking mode, 1 has to be RWRP, correct? Is that the ONLY requirement? I'm sure this is MEGA reduntant! What can I say, I'm new to this forum. Are any Tele lead pickups available in RWRP, as well as standard? Thanks-in-advance amp; by the way, Hello all! Sleepingtiger

yes, that's it. I believe it's usually the neck pickup on tele's thats RWRP.

Yep, all the RW/RP tele pickups I've encountered have been the neck units.

BTW, welcome to the forum.

I'm looking to wire 2 bridge units together W/ switching.


Originally Posted by sleepingtigerI'm looking to wire 2 bridge units together W/ switching.Will you be using them both at the bridge, or one in the neck and one in the bridge position?

Both in the bridge

I don't think that two tele lead pickups will fit side by side at the bridge. Check out Rio Grande's Twangbuckers; they'll be the closest to what you want to do.


Originally Posted by sleepingtigerIn order for 3 single coil pickups to be in TRUE humbucking mode, 1 has to be RWRP, correct? Is that the ONLY requirement? I'm sure this is MEGA reduntant! What can I say, I'm new to this forum. Are any Tele lead pickups available in RWRP, as well as standard? Thanks-in-advance amp; by the way, Hello all! Sleepingtiger

Its also somewhat important that the two coils be as close as possible to identical specs. Same coil resistance, inductance, etc. Not absolutely essential, but the closer they are, the better the noise-cancelling will be.

It works like this:

A coil of wire acts as an antenna. In fact, old radios used to use a bunch of wire wrapped around the inside of the case as the antenna. If two coils are wound opposite of each other, and then connected together out-of-phase, the noise that each picks up is cancelled. By having each coil in an opposite magnetic polarity, the voltage generated by the strings will be opposite polarity also. But since they're connected out-of-phase, those two signals add to each other to make the final output.

If the two coils are much different, they won't pick up the same degree of noise, and the hum-cancelling affect will be diminished accordingly.

Artie


Originally Posted by sleepingtigerIn order for 3 single coil pickups to be in TRUE humbucking mode, 1 has to be RWRP, correct? Is that the ONLY requirement? I'm sure this is MEGA reduntant! What can I say, I'm new to this forum.

Welcome.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean -- do you mean when all 3 pickups are on?

Standard Strat configuration is to have the middle pickup RWRP so that when you are in positions #2 and #4 (middle bridge or middle neck), you get the humbucking effect. In positions #1, #3 and #5, you get no humbucking effect at all because these are single pickup settings (bridge only; middle only; neck only). Fortunately, the single pickup settings have more output so you get a better signal to noise (hum) ratio from them than from pickup combinations in parallel (#2 and #4).

Also, unless all three of your pickups are using the same magnets (usually the case) and the same DC resistance (often the bridge is a little hotter), you won't get true 100% humbucking in positions #2 and #4 either -- though the difference between, say, a 7k bridge pu and a 6.3k middle pu is small enough that the tiny bit of extra noise compared to 100% humbucking is negligible, especially if you don't play with high gain.

I'm sorry! I just realized I SAID 3, but meant 2! I'm trying to see about quot;makingquot; a humbucker out of 2 Tele lead pickups, switchable to single coil, of course! Hasn't ANYBODY tried this yet? If not, why?

As was suggested before, Rio Grande has one, The Duncan one is the Stag Mag, it's two Strat pickups.

i think Tele bottom plates will make that difficult