Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)

[adrianlee]

New pickups and hardware.

It's a mexican tele--my fave guitar. It's my goto. I love this thing. I play mostly instrumental/psychedelic music.

Recommend me some pickups---I'm a very smooth kind of guy. I like snappy, I enjoy the subtle nuances of treble, but hate an overly harsh treble.

As for a bridge and tuners---I'm all ears.

[Eric!]

Use it a ton more than your

"MIJ Jazzaster"?

[adrianlee]

Haha, yes.

I love my jazzmaster, I just cant stand the colour, so, I tend to neglect it a bit. And, besides, teles are the greatest guitars known to man.

[Mudfuzz]

My fave tele pickup for what it's worth is the Seymour Duncan Vintage Broadcaster Lead STL-1b.

[Noise...]

My fave tele pickup for what it's worth is the Seymour Duncan Vintage Broadcaster Lead STL-1b.

Yup. I was going to recommend Broadcaster style pups as well. Vintagey, smooth, etc.

[adrianlee]

My friend keep bugging me about lace sensors. He's also a huge radiohead fan (i think Johnny Greenwood uses those in his tele). Any ideas about those?

[colin]

I've got lace sensor golds in my strat and I love em (I'd like to get another strat and go for the blue-silver-red lace sensor setup), but I don't think I'd put them in a tele.

[tuffteef]

fender original vintage 52?
and an ashtray bridge are always fun

[ifeellikeatourist]

I don't know if I need to say it, but I've always heard good things around here about GFS pickups. However, if you've got more money to burn, I would understand going with something more pricey.

[metalmariachi]

Jason Lollar pickups, Broadcaster bridge with Charlie Christian neck.

MM

[culturejam]

I have a DiMarzio Chopper T in my Tele clone and I really love it. And the bridge is the individual saddle type, which I find to be far superior to the traditional tele bridge (in terms of dialing in the intonation ).

Here's a pic: