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The best personal to elaborate further on this aspect is Ash @OilCityPickups
I have wondered how much wood there is between the bottom of the neck pocket and the pickup rout.
spares below ...
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"Keef" brass bridge Tele mod
Tonewise, compared to a three saddle type, the brass bridge was mellower with less spank to the wound strings. It had loads of sustain but so does the vintage type. The neck pickup was too mellow sounding though so I went back to the original.
Edited to clarify
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(None of this intentionally had anything whatsoever to do with Keith Richards).
It looks like this (crap grab shot):
I subsequently searched for, found & imported a brass Mighty Mite USA tele bridge about 15 years ago (hi @Funkfingers )
Of course I still have it, as my brilliant project ideas always manage to massively outweigh my ability, skills & time to fulfil them...
It looks like this
Bandcamp
https://www.armadilloguitar.com/product/micawber-style-bridge-plate-w-keef-saddles/
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btw I think half of Keef’s tone is from where he strikes the strings which is somewhere around where the neck meets the body.
Some years ago Micawber's bridge pickup went dead before a gig in London and I dealt with Pierre and rewound Micawber's bridge pickup as well as supplying the copies seen in the image below. The pickup was as I said was a lap steel pickup but not of the age you describe.
With the greatest respect, 'reading something somewhere' and having an iconic pickup on your bench to be measured and copied (along with being told a fair bit of its history) is a very different thing, :-)
It's Pierre de Beaufort not Beauport by the way.
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I'm forever trying to get guitarists to play nearer the neck when I'm producing them. It just sounds so much richer and fuller.
https://www.thomann.de/gb/abm_custom_shop_tb_1hr_brass_relic.htm
I believe the Gotoh flat plate/six saddle Tele bridge is brass, (beneath the plating) with either brass or steel saddles depending on the model.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest