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Next, I tried the Duncan ‘53 Tapped Tele Lead and Antiquity 1 neck pickup combination. Bridge - good. Neck - a bit bunged up.
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At the time of this writing, I am getting my Squier Silver Series Telecaster up and running again. I am tempted to combine a Fortyniner or Cirrostratus bridge position pickup with a Stratocaster-voiced neck position pickup and a fancy selector switch to get half-out-of-phase Jerry Donahue tones.
EDIT - I was eventually swayed by a clearance sale to chose Alegree pickups - Frigid Haze Telecaster Neck and Tornado prototype bridge/Treble.
Back in the day, my old Tokai Tele needed a refret more than anything, and only recently I started thinking about pickups again.
Anyone tried both the Mojo Broadcaster and the Oil City Fortyniner/Honkytonk Angel?
And QPickups did me really lovely aged one for my Esquire build.
but my new favourite is the one on 70th Anniversary Broadcaster which is wonderful but not available to buy as a unit.
Also
https://youtu.be/7oGz-C3oqrM
The sounds I aspire to. Obviously, massive gulf in ability counts for a lot....
Good chat with guy, talked about my bridge pickup which is a Voodoo 5os which i love but never had a neck pickup that matched it to give me all the tones.
Now i have. Clarity is astounding.
I have to mention that at the same time I changed the bridge and saddles too. When I bought the guitar, it had already been fitted with this heavy and thick aftermarket bridge. The new one is a bit more 'vintage correct' (e.g. made from thinner steel) and this has definitely helped to transform the guitar in a more vintage-y sounding Tele. Weirdly enough, the intonation is much better with the new (non-compensated) saddles too. While the saddles on the previous bridge were in fact compensated... 'improved design' does not always equal 'better' I guess...
Thanks for all the help!