Prewired Telecaster Control Plate
$120 – $135
Customize and upgrade your Telecaster, instantly with the Lindy Fralin Telecaster Control Plate. With over 150 combinations available, you can select your options, and we’ll wire it up just how you like it. Installation involves soldering a few wires into place. As always, we only use the finest-quality USA-Made parts we can find.
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Features
Our Pre-Wired Telecaster Control Plate is designed by you and built by us. Chrome and Aged Nickel Prewired Control Plates come loaded with the highest quality materials available – from CRL® Switches to CTS® Pots. Of course, all our parts are made in the USA and are assembled and wired by hand in Richmond, VA.
Look & Feel
We offer Chrome Telecaster Control Plates and Aged Nickel Telecaster Control Plates. Aged Nickel Telecaster Control Plates all have a unique patina to them to make them look slightly reliced and older. Due to the aging process, each Aged Nickel Telecaster Control Plate is unique, and no two are alike.
Orientation:
We can wire up your Tele Control Plate a couple of different ways: Normal Orientation and Flipped Orientation.
- Normal Orientation: With a Normal Orientation Telecaster Control Plate, your switch is closest to the headstock.
- Flipped Orientation: With a Flipped Orientation, the Control Plate orients with the Switch closest to the Output Jack, and the Volume Pot closest to the headstock. This is great for those who love to utilize volume swells.
Wiring
We can wire up your switch a couple of different ways – here are your options:
- 3-Way CRL: This will give you normal Telecaster functionality – Bridge Only / Bridge – Neck / Neck Only.
- 5-Way CRL: This is perfect for Nashville Telecasters, with three pickups.
Pot value:
Choose 250K Pots if you have single-coil Telecaster pickups or pickups that are brighter. 250K pots will make darker sounding pickups too dark and muddy.
Choose 500K Pots if you have Humbuckers, P-90’s, or other dark-sounding pickups. 500K pots will make single-coil Telecaster pickups sound too shrill.
Tone Cap Value:
Read up on our Tone Caps here.
- .02 mfd sounds excellent on most Fender guitars and will give you a medium roll-off in tone.
- .05 mfd will offer a much deeper and darker roll-off than .02.
- Magic Cap: This is a low capacitance cap (.0015 mfd) and only works on the Bridge Pickup only. The effect is extremely subtle – not like a regular cap. It tends to make treble strings sound slightly fatter.
FAQs
- Can you wire it up without the Chrome Plate? As it turns out, No. If this matters to you, you can pull out all the wiring once you receive it to put it in your Control Plate. It’s just too time-consuming and unsafe to ship without a solid control plate holding everything together.
- Can I return my Control Plate? No. Since these are so custom and made to order, all Telecaster Control Plate sales are final, and not available for exchange or return.
- What if I don’t see what I want? Please use the “Notes” field on the checkout screen to type in any special requests. Use this field to describe how you want it wired as well if you wish to have anything customized. We’ll make it to your specs.
Installation
Installation is easy, and only takes a few steps. Check out our in-depth Telecaster Control Plate Installation Guide Below:
Telecaster Control Plate Installation Guide
Prewired Telecaster Control Plate Dimensions:
Customer Reviews
152 Genuine Reviews for Prewired Telecaster Control Plate
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Pretty and quiet
Other than needing to loosen up the volume pot for swells, it’s great. Appreciate the phone time helping me understand the magic pot
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Tele build for my friend. You guys do great work. I have another Tele I want to swap the pickups out of. I know I will order from Fralin!
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My control plate came with every wire marked. All I had to do was unsoldered the marked wires and solder on the pickups. Easy peasy … even for a guy like me that has only soldered a couple of times
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Perfect simplicity!
This pre-assembled control plate was just what I needed for my project guitar. As a first time solderer, it saved me a lot of frustration!
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Blues Special Split Blade Pickups w/ Pre-Wired Control PLate
I put this combination, in my latest Tele build. I have built Four Teles and a Strat. My two best sounding guitars are the Teles, that have the Fralin pickups. I am fairly new, to building guitars, so I really didn’t know exactly what I wanted. I found it when I built my latest guitar. The Blues Special, Split Blade pickups with the Pre-wired Customizable Control Plate. This guitar played through my Fender Blues Jr., is just what I was looking for. Thanks to Lindy and his knowledgeable staff, I got what I wanted. W. Bill Van Horn
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Telecaster controls and plate
A very high-quality product- top rated pots and a great solder job-my tech loved it! I highly recommend this!
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Holy smokes! I just put in my Blues Special pickups and Control Plate and they are fantastic. I truly appreciate the way y’all laid out how I was to solder everything. I’ve only soldered a few times, but y’all made it so easy. Thanks for all the emails with instructions as well. This is such a cool change for my Tele. Thanks for making great parts and making the installation easy. Keep up the great art!
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Quality and coolness
Well built and no cold solder joints!
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So good, so easy
Fantastic quality and makes install so quick and easy. Truly pro gear.
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Pre-wired volume / tone pots easy to install, much more even control at all volumes. Very satisfied, would buy again.
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The best build quality I’ve ever received in a prewired kit. I got 300k pots to go with a set of steel pole 43 tele pickups and this is easily my go to for every guitar from now on. Absolutely stunning.
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Works without a flaw and great solder work. Thank you!
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Telecaster control plate and pickups: Same high-quality product that I have been getting from you for years. Thank Y’all so much
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Amazing as always.
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Control plate
Awesome quality high-end electronics very well put together and improved Tonal Sound Great job, Lindy
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Great upgrade
I wanted a higher quality control plate where the plastic switch tip wouldn’t keep flying off and since I already have Fralin pickups this was the logical choice. I treated myself to the series/parallel upgrade and am glad I did. It adds a great mellow sound which I like for clean playing. (It sounds a bit muddy to me with anything but light gain.)
Worth the few extra bucks over the generic plate I already had. -
Wanted to take a tele deluxe back to “original” but wanted quality components. My first thought was get it from Fralin. So, that’s what I did — works fine.
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NOTES ON FINISH:
- Aged Control Plates are aged by hand and feature slight defects and a raw look. We cannot guarantee that the plate you receive will look like our photos - they are all unique.
- We cannot guarantee finish matching of the plate and knobs perfectly. Because of this, we cannot provide a return to you if you are unhappy with the finish matching of our Prewired Telecaster Control Plate.
HARNESSES:
- Our parts and wire lengths are designed to work seamlessly with our Prewired Telecaster Control Plate. Due to various guitar and instrument designs, we cannot guarantee that our parts will fit properly, and due to this, we do not offer Wiring Harnesses.
