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Title: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: madison on February 06, 2010, 09:06:55 pm: Thinking about swapping Fender HB PUP on the Keef Tele
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: tubesornothing on February 07, 2010, 01:07:06 am: Oh yeah - Lollar T series. Man that is one **great** pickup. Round, lots of clarity, just fantastic for blues solos. I LOVE it.
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: G._Hoffman on February 07, 2010, 02:56:36 am: Quote from: tubesornothing on February 07, 2010, 01:07:06 am
Oh yeah - Lollar T series. Man that is one **great** pickup. Round, lots of clarity, just fantastic for blues solos. I LOVE it.

Pretty sure he is looking for a Fender sized humbucker. They are REALLY tough to find.

I did just find a website for Curtis Novak (http://curtisnovak.com/pickups_guitar.shtml). I've never tried his pickups, and have no idea if they are any good, but I do know I've had a hard time finding these for people in the past. If you go that route, let me know what you think?

Gabriel
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: FYL on February 07, 2010, 06:37:12 am: Quote
Thinking about swapping Fender HB PUP on the Keef Tele

Which version have you got ? Japanese or Mexican ?
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: madison on February 07, 2010, 06:39:00 am: E serial MIJ.

Honestly, I am pretty open to anything.
Especially since there are replacement pick guards to fit almost anything for this guitar.

I have a SD Little '59 sitting that I am seriously thinking of trying.
I had it in a Strat
It had loads of output and great for hard rock but lost the flavor, balance, and charm of the neck/mid setting IMHO.
Think I should try it in the Keef?
Seen or tried anything like this?
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: stingray_65 on February 07, 2010, 09:07:08 am: I just used a WRHB bridge pickup in the neck position in my 72 RI build.

500K pots 225 series sprauge caps for tone and treble bleed ( important as these are very dark pickups to begin with.)

My son and I had a chance just last week to do an A-B comparison to a 74 custom.

my son played the 74 and his friend played our 72 into a blues deluxe RI at guitar center.

the RI bridge pup was not as warm as the 74's neck pup, but it was definitly more articulate and just a tad brighter.

I have to say thogh to my ears the over all tone was pretty close
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: FYL on February 07, 2010, 10:05:45 am: Quote
E serial MIJ.

The stock pup is a standard humbucker disguised as a WRH. OK sounding, but not great.

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I have a SD Little '59 sitting that I am seriously thinking of trying.

Could work nicely.

OTOH you could consider humbuckers from the usual suspects - Lollar, Fralin, etc. - plus on the affordable side the surprising StewMac Golden Age and the GFS V59, which give excellent results and don't cost an arm and a leg.
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: G._Hoffman on February 07, 2010, 04:05:04 pm: If a normal sized humbucker will fit, I'd look at Lindy Fralin's split single coils - the P-92 and the Twangmaster. KILLER pickups, and more appropriate for a Tele, if the Tele sound is what you are after.

If you want something fatter, try his Unbucker, or a Seymour Duncan Alnico II is also a great pickup.

Gabriel
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: Madison on February 10, 2010, 12:43:30 am: Thanks guys.

I'll see what I can can up with.
Title: Re: Neck PUP for '72 Tele Custom ?
Post by: FYL on February 10, 2010, 06:56:34 am: Quote
If a normal sized humbucker will fit

The Fender WRH and it's "reissues" are larger than typical humbuckers. All third-party pups fit - with the right pickguard and mounting hardware of course.