Strat neck & tele bridge pups - recommendations please

LordOxygen

I'm building a mash up of a telecaster from off offcuts and scrap wood in my workshop. I'd like to install a strat neck pickup for that strat tone and a tele bridge pup for, well that tele tone with the usual tele controls and 3 way switch. 

The choice of pups is a little overwhelming, being a p90 / humbucker player I'm out of my depth when it comes to regular single coils.

If you have any recomendations for a pair of pickups that will work ok together then please do post them here. 
Nothing bright, I play blues and some Jazz so looking for a warm and clear sound.
(Ideally UK made - but not too spendy)
Thanks. 

Roland

My favourites are:
Neck - Oil City Californian. It uses longer magnets to make it sound like a Strat neck pickup.
Bridge - Oil City Wapping Wharf. This is a tapped single coil, giving two different Tele bridge sounds.
If your body is deep enough you can fit a five way superswitch and get: Bridge, Tapped Bridge, Both in parallel, Neck, Both in Series

LordOxygen

Thanks, i'm building the guitar from scratch so can easily route for a standard strat neck pup - which is what I had in mind. The guitar will not have a pick guard so will be a direct mount or a hand made pick up ring to secure it.
will have a look at Oil city's website.

Roland

Not being a fan of pick guards I body mount my pickups using threaded inserts. It means drilling out the neck pickup mounting holes. If you use a traditional long Tele bridge plate the pickup crews into that. With a short bridge plate you can body mount with smaller screw diameters through the bridge pickup holes.

guitarmangler

I like the Suhr telecaster pickups I had in a strandberg. I think peach were selling them cheap (ish) last time I looked.

Funkfingers

Alegree Texas Dust Devil bridge and Tele-format Texan Hailstorm neck. 

For maximum Strat-Tele mash-up, specify separate ground cables for the neck pickup cover and the bridge pickup baseplate.

Maximise the sound options via either a Freeway 3B3 six-way or a Schaller Megaswitch M five-way switch (circuit diagram SS3).

Dave_Mc

Are you using a standard Tele bridge? (Not the pickup, I mean the actual bridge.)

I'd guess you'd probably want to go with a slightly warmer Strat pickup in the neck- assuming you're using a Tele bridge that tends to make the Strat pickup a little brighter (and with a little bit of a harder edge) than it'd be in a Strat with a trem. I would guess enamel winding wire and maybe softer/sweeter magnets (alnico 2 or 3).

Probably softer magnets in the bridge pickup too- I'm not that keen on mixing magnets, but that's just me.

Bloodstones are about the cheapest UK-made Strat and Tele pickups currently- excepting sales on places like Ebay from the likes of Catswhisker, Toltec etc.. You should be able to get both pickups for under £100. I haven't tried Bloodstone's Strat or Tele pickups but their humbuckers are great and I'd be shocked if their single coils aren't too.

LordOxygen

Dave_Mc said:

Are you using a standard Tele bridge? (Not the pickup, I mean the actual bridge.)

I'd guess you'd probably want to go with a slightly warmer Strat pickup in the neck- assuming you're using a Tele bridge that tends to make the Strat pickup a little brighter (and with a little bit of a harder edge) than it'd be in a Strat with a trem. I would guess enamel winding wire and maybe softer/sweeter magnets (alnico 2 or 3).

Probably softer magnets in the bridge pickup too- I'm not that keen on mixing magnets, but that's just me.

Bloodstones are about the cheapest UK-made Strat and Tele pickups currently- excepting sales on places like Ebay from the likes of Catswhisker, Toltec etc.. You should be able to get both pickups for under £100. I haven't tried Bloodstone's Strat or Tele pickups but their humbuckers are great and I'd be shocked if their single coils aren't too.

I will be using a standard tele bridge, pics below.
From what I've read over the last day or 2, I agree that alnico 2 or 3 is probably the way to go.
Warm, smooth sounds are good, I play at home in the evenings only, can't deal with bright cutting treble. 
I'll check out the pups from Alegree and Bloodstones.

SteveRobinson

LordOxygen said:

Nice! I had a shirt that pattern (with matching tie) in the 1970s

Dave_Mc

LordOxygen said:

Dave_Mc said:

Are you using a standard Tele bridge? (Not the pickup, I mean the actual bridge.)

I'd guess you'd probably want to go with a slightly warmer Strat pickup in the neck- assuming you're using a Tele bridge that tends to make the Strat pickup a little brighter (and with a little bit of a harder edge) than it'd be in a Strat with a trem. I would guess enamel winding wire and maybe softer/sweeter magnets (alnico 2 or 3).

Probably softer magnets in the bridge pickup too- I'm not that keen on mixing magnets, but that's just me.

Bloodstones are about the cheapest UK-made Strat and Tele pickups currently- excepting sales on places like Ebay from the likes of Catswhisker, Toltec etc.. You should be able to get both pickups for under £100. I haven't tried Bloodstone's Strat or Tele pickups but their humbuckers are great and I'd be shocked if their single coils aren't too.

I will be using a standard tele bridge, pics below.
From what I've read over the last day or 2, I agree that alnico 2 or 3 is probably the way to go.
Warm, smooth sounds are good, I play at home in the evenings only, can't deal with bright cutting treble. 
I'll check out the pups from Alegree and Bloodstones.

Yep Alegrees are great too, just they're a little more money than the Bloodstones if you want to keep the price down. They're still great value. So are Oil Cities as @Roland said, just again a bit more money and I haven't tried their Tele pickups.

(I also probably should've said that Bloodstones are about the cheapest UK-made pickups currently that I'm aware of, just in case there's something out there that I've missed!)

The guitar looks great so far, excellent work!