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
153 Genuine Reviews for Prewired Telecaster Control Plate
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Lefty Esquire control plate. Awesome and informative!
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Installing the prewired tele plat was so easy even I could do it! Works great, sounds great an looks great! What more is there to say except; awesome!!!
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Push pull tone control – I love it. Wiring was very professional. Tone cap makes the bridge pickup much more manageable.
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Great item and service. Called with a question and got great response.
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Top shelf quality
Couldnt be happier with the plate, detailed installation instruction, and customer service. Lindy customer for life! -
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Perfect, as usual. Top notch build quality, easily customizable, clear, simple instructions, etc. what’s not to love? Can’t beat a Fralin product!
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MAKE SURE IT’S DONE RIGHT!
Putting in Steel Pole 42 Tele pickups, I wanted to make sure I had the right pots, caps, etc. Lindy took the time to see what I needed then had a wired control plate done. Drop-in and play!
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The Prewired Control Plate is perfect, highly recommend.
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Just Perfect. I ordered this for a self-built Telecaster and it fits and works great. I’m not that great with a soldiering Iron but this was super easy to just drop in place, solder a couple of contact points, and I was finished!
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Just as expected
Fralin never disappoints! Flawless execution and doesn’t rob any tone from my 51 Nocaster pups. I didn’t have any use for the original Nocaster setup. The new Fralin pre-wired plate was the right choice. I have all the control and expression and then some. Thank you guys. You don’t just deliver great pickups, you deliver tone!
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Aged chrome Tele pre-wired control plate
Fantastic! Aged chrome looks great, simple to wire, wonderful instructions. The knobs, pots and switch are top notch. -
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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Sweet. Love the series switch!
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Crisp, Clean and Customized
Lindy asked if I go for darker “jazzy” tones with my Tele. I typically don’t. I have other guitars for that. He then asked if I ever use the tone knob. I sometimes do, though just to roll off some of the harsher highs that can come from a Tele being played through a vintage Deluxe Reverb. So he recommended I give his Magic Cap a try. I did. It’s perfect for the way I play my Tele. As a singer who also plays the lead, It’s especially helpful in a live setting. With a standard cap, you have to be very accurate as to not roll too much off and end up with too dark of a tone going into a solo. With the Magic Cap, there’s more range of motion on the knob so I can dial in the tone I want much quicker and without needing to be as accurate. Even if I turn it all the way, my tone doesn’t get muddy.
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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.
