Setting your pickup’s height properly is probably the most overlooked step in purchasing a set of pickups. It would be like purchasing a new car and not inflating the tires. Pickup height is a critical…
Understanding Guitar Grounding
Practicing your guitar makes you a better guitar player. Understanding guitar wiring makes you a better Tone Wizard. And, properly grounding your guitar’s electronics makes your guitar as quiet as it can be. In today’s…
Using Resistors In Guitars – 101
When you think of tone shaping, a couple of items might come to mind. We all use pickups, capacitors (tone caps), and pots as tone shapers. All the above are powerful in their ability to…
5 Essential Guitar Pickup Luthier Tools
In this article, we want to talk about 5 essential tools a luthier can use when installing and diagnosing pickups. These tools are tools we use all day, every day. The best part about them:…
4-Way Switching With A Push Pull Pot
Recently, we’ve heard that certain 4-Way Switch manufacturers are not 100% compatible with the Fender Telecaster Control Plate. We’ve found that the switch swings too wide, getting blocked by the Plate itself. This prevents the…
How To Choose The Right Humbucker Lead
There’s a lot you can do with a humbucker pickup, wiring wise. Choosing the right Humbucker Lead will help you get the job done right. Humbuckers are a powerful tool in the guitar pickup…
How to Properly Install an Output Jack on your Guitar
Installing an Output Jack is an essential skill to have under your belt. Installing it wrong, however, can give you a literal headache. At Fralin Pickups, we wire Switchcraft® Output Jacks on our Telecaster Control…
All About Dogear Pickups
If you’re ever looking at purchasing one of our P90’s, chances are, you might have a Dogear Style. Dogear Pickups have a few different qualities to them that might be confusing for some. We thought…
Convert Your Tele Neck Into a 3-Wire Neck
Due to the popularity of 4-Way Switching, we get asked a lot about converting a standard Telecaster Neck Pickup into a 3-Wire Neck. In today’s lesson, we’ll show you how to convert the Neck pickup…
8 Common Guitar Pickup Rookie Mistakes!
Lindy Fralin Pickups has been around for over 25 years, and in that time, we’ve seen all levels of guitar and bass player. From the bedroom hobbyist to the full-blown touring pro, we’ve all had…