Tonerider Vintage Plus User Manual

Standard
Telecaster Wiring

Thanks for purchasing a Tonerider Telecaster
Pickup. By far the easiest way to a trouble-free
installation is to carefully note down the solder
points of your previous pickup before removal.

Most Telecaster-type guitars use a 3-way switch,
and we’ve included a large, easy-to-read diagram
for this standard configuration.

All Tonerider pickups have a 5-year warranty when
purchased new. Please keep your receipt and see
the enclosed warranty card for details.

POLARITY.

- Neck: North Pole Up / Counter-Clockwise Wind.

- Bridge: South Pole Up / Clockwise Wind

THE QUICK GUIDE:
* Install the neck pickup into the cavity using

the two wood screws and latex tubing provided.
Set the height of the neck pickup to approxi­mately 2mm above the pickguard.
* The bridge pickup should be mounted to the
bridge plate using the three machine screws and
latex tubing provided.
* The WHITE and YELLOW pickup wires from
the pickups should be soldered to the correct
lugs of the 5-way switch.
* The BLACK pickup wires should be soldered
to a ground point, normally the back of the
volume pot.
* Reinstall the pickguard and re-string the
guitar.
* Pressing the strings against the high frets, set
the bridge pickup height to approximately 2mm.
from the strings and adjust to taste.

CAPACITOR & POTENTIOMETER VALUES

We design all our Telecaster pickups to perform
with the most standard industry configurations ­250k Audio pots and 0.047uf capacitors. A

0.02uf capacitor will roll off less high-end and is
a good alternative. Players who like very bright
Tele tones might like to experiment with 500k or
even 1Meg volume pots.

BRIDGE

GROUND

OUTPUT JACK

“HOT”

OUTPUT JACK

GROUND

3-WAY, 1-VOL, 1-TONE WIRING

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have any questions then give us Email us on
[e-mail] or give us a a call on
[phone].

More wiring guides are available for download at
www.tonerider.com