installing single coil pickup

[jams]

i have a strat style guitar i want to take the pickup out of and install it to a tele guitar.with single coils do you need to solder them or does the pickup bolt on inside the cover.the strat style is the 5way switching type,tele has two pickups.

[Satchmo72]

The pickups in a strat normally bolt to the pickguard if it has one, on a tele I'm not sure but it would also bolt to the pickguard I would imagine. I dont think you solder them in though, there would be soldering required in the electronic installation of the pickup to the switch but not the physical installation.

Hope that helps a bit.

[jams]

[. cool it sounds a lot easier than installing humbuckers.

[mcnach]

This is a picture of a tele I used to have:

http://mcnach.com/gearpics/Guitars/t...Black_body.jpg

as you can see, the bridge pickup bolts onto the bridge plate and the neck pickup is screwed into the wood, not through the scratchpalte like in a strat.

Both methods are simple. For the ones that screw into the wood you need to put some kind of foam under the pickup, to push it up, while you tighten the screws to bring the pickup to the desired height.

One thing, 'though: the pickups of a telecaster are NOT the same dimensions of a strat single coil. The neck pickup is thinner, so you'd need to widen the gap in the scratchplate, and the bridge pickup is wider (and maybe a bit less deep too), and of course a strat pickup doesn't have teh right mounting holes for the tele bridgeplate...
You should consider that before you decide you want those strat pickups on your tele.

[mcnach]

ah, regarding the pickup covers... most humbuckers are wax-potted, so removing the covers is a little tricky (and unnecessary). The strat pickup covers are not fixed in any way, so you can remove them easily.

[jams]

thanks.yeah i took both pickguards off and the strat style p up has two wires under the electrical tape.the tele is solder.i did not think of the size of the pickguard.i dont want to be resizing anything so i think i will get a pickup that fits.its a shame the guitar plays great for 200.00.the pickup is only ok on clean tone.the strat style pickups sound great.the tele is a squier tele by fender,there making good guitars for the price.it looks like i will play my shectner with the coil splitter for a single coil sound until i find a replacement

[Kain Thornn]

Strat pickups are a different size than Tele pickups, they're smaller than the bridge and larger then the neck. You may need to do a bit of routing or simply enlarge the hole in the Tele pickguard. Good luck and give us a sound clip when ya got it in eh?