The Radioshop Telecaster Tone System2
The Radioshop Telecaster Tone System3
The Radioshop Telecaster Tone System4

Radioshop Telecaster Blender System

£335.00

Set of 2 Pickups & The Radioshop Telecaster Blender Mod Harness

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Accolades:

Guitarist Magazine – 10/10 Gold Award, Issue 516, November 2024, Gear of the Year Nominee December 2024

Guitar World, USA – 5 Star Review, November 2024

The Radioshop Telecaster Blender System pairs your choice of one of our best selling Handwound Telecaster Sets with a ready to solder in harness with our Radioshop Tele Blend Mod giving you a new world of sonic possibilities.

Your Tele. Three positions. But finally – full control. 

You love your Telecaster. The twang, the bite, the simplicity. But if you’ve ever sat in the neck position wishing for just a touch of the bridge pickup to liven things up – or found the bridge alone a little too much to tame – you already know exactly what this mod solves.

The Telecaster Blender Mod keeps everything you love about the standard Tele setup: your three way selector, your master volume. What changes is the tone knob. We’ve replaced it with a dual concentric pot that does two jobs in one footprint – no extra drilling, no extra holes, no compromising the Tele’s legendary simplicity.

The upper knob is your standard master tone, exactly as you’d expect.

The lower knob is the game changer. Turn it down from 10 and it gradually blends in whichever pickup isn’t active. In the Neck position? Dial in a touch of the bridge for a livelier rhythm sound. Bridge position a little too much? Bring the neck in to round off the twang and add warmth. At 10, the pot is completely removed from the circuit – zero colouration, zero compromise.

The real magic lives in the mid-range of the control. A subtle blend of bridge into neck is one of the best rhythm sounds a Tele can make. It’s a sound we’ve been chasing for years and at last it’s here.

Also worth knowing: if you opt for the Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity option when pairing the Blender Mod with a set of our pickups, the hum cancelling effect kicks in far earlier than with standard wiring – giving you an element of hum cancellation in all three positions. Perfect for those noisy stages!

The Blender System comes with a set of our handwound pickups and a pre-wired harness with our ‘Radioshop Telecaster Blender Mod’ attached to a cardboard mount, complete with knobs, loaded with all USA grade components ready for you to solder in and transform your Tele’s tone.

NEW for 2025! Our Telecaster Blender System is now available with fully Solderless installation here

Specification

  • Includes a Set of our Handwound pickups of your choice and a pre-wired harness attached to a cardboard mount with the ‘Radioshop Telecaster Blender Mod’
  • Choice of Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity Bridge Pickup for hum cancelling when both pickups are used or ‘Vintage Spec non RWRP’
  • 3 way Oak Grigsby Switch
  • CTS 250k Volume Pot
  • CTS Dual Concentric Tone Knob – Upper Knob: Master Tone, Lower Knob: Blender Pot to blend between pickups
  • Choice of Sprague Orange Drop or Paper In Oil Capacitor (traditional Fender 0.047uf value)
  • Switchcraft Mono Jack
  • Comes with chrome or gold knurled knob for the Volume
  • Choice of chrome, chrome with black or gold knurled knobs for the Dual Concentric Pot
  • Does not include control plate or switch tip
  • Blender pot is a No load potentiometer – performs no function and is removed from the tone circuit when on ’10’. Blends the pickups when set below ’10’

 

Watch: The Radioshop Telecaster Blender System with our Pure ’50s Tele set (set previously known as Vintage ’52s)

Delivery By default all of our pickups are shipped with Royal Mail who we find to be excellent both within the UK and Internationally. Their rates enable us to offer prices that are very reasonable for our customers and the timeframe is great for the vast majority of countries. We find that, once despatched, Royal Mail tend to take 1 working day within the UK, 2/3 working days within the EU, 4/5 working days to North America and Worldwide. These are guidelines and of course some countries differ and the level of ‘officiousness’ in customs departments differs massively worldwide. If ordering from a country which is notorious for taking a while to process imported goods (we can think of a few!) please build this into your expectation on the timeframe after despatch. How long will it take to make? As a small pickup maker handmaking within an extremely busy workshop we expect to complete all pickups sets within 16-20 working days (Relic’ed orders 5 days longer). We sometimes work quicker than those timeframes and we’ll always endeavour to finish your pickups as quick as we are able to of course. We can sometimes process a rush order if you have an upcoming, important concert or perhaps if you are buying for a relative’s birthday etc - feel free to message and we’ll always see what we can do.