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I was thinking about installing a SP90-2 in the neck of my new MIM Telecaster, and I was wondering which bridge pickup would compliment the tone. My Tele has the regular Alder body and maple fretboard. I was thinking that an STL-2 Hot Lead pickup would work well with a hot P-90. Any...

I picked up another Tele a while back...an Arctic White Mexican Standard (alder body, maple neck and fretboard) and I did all the shielding upgrades and installed a Little '59 humbucker in the bridge, along with a pair of 500K control pots. I used a 0.047uF capacitor for the tone control. Now...

My MIM Telecaster appears to have its neck pickup cavity routed for something up to a full-size humbucking pickup, but has anyone installed one in a MIM Tele? I don't have a regular humbucker that I can use to test and see if it will indeed fit in the neck pickup cavity. Thanks for any help...

I was thinking of replacing the Quarter Pound rhythm pickup in my Telecaster with the Vintage Rhythm Stack pickup (STK-T1N). The bridge pickup in my Tele is a Little '59 humbucker, so I'm thinking that since the Vintage Rhythm Stack is also humbucking, the all-around tone would be quite nice...

...get mint green covers (to match all the other mint green plasitc parts on my guitar) for SD single coil Strat pickups with "Seymour Duncan" printed on them, similar to the way that it's printed on the Lil '59 and others? I know it's only a cosmetic thing, but I'd like people to know that my...

I've had some Fender CS Fat 50s pickups in my 1993 MIM Strat for a few years now, and they're not exactly what I'm looking for...a little too "glassy" for my liking. The sound I want is warm and fat, but not muddy, while retaining a nice amount of "bite." They would also need to respond nicely...

A while back I installed a pair of new pickups in my MIM Tele...a Quarter Pound in the neck and a Little '59 humbucker in the bridge, but I've noticed that the Quarter Pound is a little too muddy/dark sounding for my taste, especially when compared to the Little '59, which has a nice treble...

I just noticed that in the SD Telecaster wiring diagrams, it shows the neck pickup installed so that the side of the pickup where the wires come out is installed so that it's pointed toward the neck. When I installed my Quarter Pound, I installed it so that the side with the wires coming out...

Earlier in the year I loaded my Telecaster with a Quarter Pound in the neck and a Little '59 in the bridge, and I've noticed that any switching combination with the neck pickup has a very pronounced "muddiness" while the Little '59 sounds fine. I rewired the guitar using 250K pots, and I'm...