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Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:52 pm
by Eric!
Use it a ton more than your
"MIJ Jazzaster"?
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:02 am
by 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.
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:15 am
by Mudfuzz
My fave tele pickup for what it's worth is the Seymour Duncan Vintage Broadcaster Lead STL-1b.
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:39 am
by Noise...
Mudfuzz wrote: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.

Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:45 am
by 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?
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:13 am
by 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.
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:45 am
by tuffteef
fender original vintage 52?
and an ashtray bridge are always fun
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:59 am
by 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.
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:19 am
by metalmariachi
Jason Lollar pickups, Broadcaster bridge with Charlie Christian neck.
MM
Re: Going to upgrade my tele. (need help)
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:36 am
by 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:
