Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Really?

Fatfingers

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1954-Fender-Telecaster-Tele-Esquire-Bridge-Pickup-100-original-1953-52-/281805324541?hash=item419ce800fd:g:bSMAAOSwuTxV~vev

strumjoughlamps

Damn only one available, needed 2

Panama_Jack666

Maybe it's worth it if you have a '54 tele missing it's bridge pickup?

It's not like you can buy one at Strings Direct?!

marcus449

cheers for the link, I'm looking for one that reads a mild 6.54k rather than a strong 7.10k

randella

On the one hand, yeah.  It's a joke. For someone to whom (like me) the whole vintage thing is anathema, spending an amount of money like that on a pickup seems very silly when the same amount would probably get you in to the low end of the Custom Shop for a whole guitar. 

Then again, what would a playable '54 Esquire cost? Guesswork - £20, £30k?  If you had one without a bridge pickup, probably a lot less. If you've got that sort of wedge to drop on the guitar, £2.1k for the pickup starts to make more sense. 

I doubt it it would do much for a Mexi Standard though

Edit - beaten to it

Panama_Jack666

randella said:

On the one hand, yeah.  It's a joke. For someone to whom (like me) the whole vintage thing is anathema, spending an amount of money like that on a pickup seems very silly when the same amount would probably get you in to the low end of the Custom Shop for a whole guitar. 

Then again, what would a playable '54 Esquire cost? Guesswork - £20, £30k?  If you had one without a bridge pickup, probably a lot less. If you've got that sort of wedge to drop on the guitar, £2.1k for the pickup starts to make more sense. 

I doubt it it would do much for a Mexi Standard though

Edit - beaten to it

You said it better though

randella

Panama_Jack666 said:

randella said:

On the one hand, yeah.  It's a joke. For someone to whom (like me) the whole vintage thing is anathema, spending an amount of money like that on a pickup seems very silly when the same amount would probably get you in to the low end of the Custom Shop for a whole guitar. 

Then again, what would a playable '54 Esquire cost? Guesswork - £20, £30k?  If you had one without a bridge pickup, probably a lot less. If you've got that sort of wedge to drop on the guitar, £2.1k for the pickup starts to make more sense. 

I doubt it it would do much for a Mexi Standard though

Edit - beaten to it

You said it better though

Very kind of you! It doesn't happen often

Evilmags

Stick that pickup in ten teles, and you´ll have ten slightly different sounds. Stick a load of bare knuckles, oil city masterwounds, lollars, fralins, bulldogs ect in the same guitar and nobody would be able to spot the original. 

bbill335

I've been looking through their store. I'm a fan of this body, which is both sonic blue and seafoam green, and yet it is neither.

bbill335

At least he had the decency to put this once-special guitar back together with buLLSHIIIIT REPRO PARTS