Nashville Panhandle

Our Nashville Panhandle set is our classic Tele set with the addition of a Strat-like middle pickup, for added versatility.

The middle pickup is based on our Big Sur Strat set, with some minor tweaks to balance perfectly with our Panhandle neck & bridge designs.

Characteristics

• Warm lows and shimmering presence in the top end

• Excellent crunch and edge-of-breakup tones

• Super responsive with overdrive & fuzz

Specs

• Neck: 7.5k | Middle: 5.9k | Bridge: 7.4k

• Alnico V Magnets, charged by hand

• Vintage style cloth “push-back” wire

• Supplied with mounting screws & latex spacers

• Hand wound in California

RWRP Options for Middle Pickup:

The Nashville Paradox - Aficionados will know that it is not possible to have hum-cancelling in positions 2 & 4 (like a Strat) and have hum-cancelling with the Neck + Bridge pickups engaged (like a Tele).

You can get all the same sounds no matter what… We are only talking about the limitations of the hum-cancelling effect with two pickups engaged, at the same time.

Here are the options for our Nashville Panhandle set…

Option 1 - Standard wind middle pickup - This gives you hum-cancelling with:

• Neck + Bridge (classic Tele)

• Strat position 4 (Neck + Middle)

With this setup, you only sacrifice hum cancelling in Strat position 2 (Bridge + Middle). Keeping your classic Tele tones intact + some Strat-like Middle + Neck goodness. This setup is our favorite!

Option 2 - RWRP middle - This gives you hum-cancelling with:

• Neck + Bridge (classic Tele)

• Strat position 2 (Bridge + Middle)

With this option you lose hum-cancelling with Neck + Middle and gain hum-cancelling with Bridge + Middle.

If you want a classic Nashville Tele setup, this is the same as throwing a standard Strat Middle pickup into a standard Tele.

Option 3 - RWRP Middle with a new standard wind, standard polarity Neck pickup - Only available if ordering a full set.

You’ll get hum-cancelling in the following positions:

• Hum-cancelling in Strat positions 2 & 4

• No hum-cancelling with Neck + Bridge

This option gives you the standard hum-cancelling characteristics of a Strat rather than a traditional Tele.

How it all works with your selector switch…

A standard 5-way switch can be wired up to give you traditional Strat positions, but most players prefer to swap out position 3 (Middle only) for the classic Tele “Neck + Bridge” setup. You can also use a superswitch, toggle switch or Push/pull potentiometer to add in either the Neck or Bridge. There are many ways to wire a Nashville Tele!

What is RWRP?

Reverse Wind, Reverse Polarity means that we wind the copper coil of one pickup in the opposite direction to the other pickups in a guitar. When we do this, we also flip the polarity of the magnets on that pickup.

Two coils - one regular and the other RWRP is how a humbucker “bucks the hum” while staying in phase. Because a standard SSS Strat and a Nashville Tele both have three single coil pickups, we need to choose which of the 5 switch positions will include two coils of opposite wind-direction and magnet-polarity, to create the hum-cancelling effect.