The Age Old Question; Best tele neck humbucker or is a 69 CS Strat pup better?

Gassage

Knock yourself out. Warmth and power required, decent coil tap is a bonus if HB.

DrBob

I’ve got a Mojotron in the neck position of my Tele, absolutely love it 

Gassage

DrBob said:

I’ve got a Mojotron in the neck position of my Tele, absolutely love it 

It's a preCBS tele- I don't want to go too extreme looks wise. It's routed already. But thx.

Octafish

What about a humbucker sized P90? Got one in a Jazzmaster, pretty warm sound.

Gassage

Octafish said:

What about a humbucker sized P90? Got one in a Jazzmaster, pretty warm sound.

Might be an option, yes

Funkfingers

Money no object? Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates For Stratocaster. Second choice, Red Devil Neck. Both of these employ an Alnico bar magnet rather than the ceramic of the Li'l '59. It seems to make a difference.

JD50

What about a WRHB?

p90fool

Vintage Strat pickup every time. It makes for a properly balanced guitar, where both pickups sound their best with the same amp settings. 

The middle position rings like a bell too, though I didn't use it here;

breezytele

I  was considering the same options as you, whilst I was gathering parts for a custom build, but settled on this. https://www.buyanalogman.com/Analog_Man_Jim_Weider_Big_T_Telecaster_neck_pickup_p/am-bigtpickup.htm

Its made by Fralin, only sold via Analogman, and developed by Jim Weider, and  those demos sound fine.  
The product description is detailed, including of the sound they were aiming to achieve.
The magnets are a little deeper btw

mgaw

I have a Throbak HB in the neck of my Gustavsson Fullerblaster  and sounds pretty good

lovestrat74

p90fool said:

Vintage Strat pickup every time. It makes for a properly balanced guitar, where both pickups sound their best with the same amp settings. 

The middle position rings like a bell too, though I didn't use it here;

Nice  

noisepolluter

Alnico 5 mini humbucker? Nice mix of grunt and chime, and not too much of a volume discrepancy with bridge pickup.

john_r

My blackguard partscaster has a low output PAF style humbucker wound with 43 gauge wire that @Mojopickups made for me is nicely balanced with the bridge pickup but needs 500k pots and some cleverness with resistors to sound its best and have the bridge pickup still 'see' a 250k pot. If you don't want to mess with the wiring harness strat pickup is probably the way to go.

dangriffiths

The Fralin P45 I have in my Novo Serus T does a good job - worth checking out. I imagine you can custom order from them or have similar made by another company.

thegummy

dangriffiths said:

The Fralin P45 I have in my Novo Serus T does a good job - worth checking out. I imagine you can custom order from them or have similar made by another company.

I thought my old boss had bought me one of those pickups but turned out it was just a normal P45

earwighoney

Gassage said:

DrBob said:

I’ve got a Mojotron in the neck position of my Tele, absolutely love it 

It's a preCBS tele- I don't want to go too extreme looks wise. It's routed already. But thx.

Aside from the Strat pickup, a uncovered Tele neck pickup might be a decent option, 

victorludorum

I always find that a traditional white Strat pickup looks weird in the Tele neck position because of the pole pieces. When you add the screws either side it makes everything look a bit bizarre to me, as normally a Tele neck pickup is so small. I got around that by using a Lace Chrome Dome, but I have to say that it's not the perfect sound for me when playing clean, so i tend to tweak it. If I didn't have a slightly unusual scratchplate shape (I have a PAF in the bridge) I would replace it with one of @TheGuitarWeasel 's creations, which seem to have a bit more beef that the traditional Tele neck pickup.

Maybe an uncovered Strat pickup is the way to go. I heard a rumour that you're a Gilmour fan, and I believe that he did the same thing once upon a time ;-)