Spudro
New member
My first posting on Duncan's forums:
Jerry Donahue APTL-3JD has made me love my Esquire MIM Classic 50's!
I'm generally not a big pickup swappin' guy. I buy a guitar because I want what it is.
I got the hots for an Esquire some months back. I found a good new one at a price that I could live with.
My gigs are generally the Blues Jam sort of thing and I only bring one of my guitars on a given night and that's what I'll play. My other "Tele" guitars are a Nocaster Relic and a 1976 Telecaster Custom with a Seth Lover Fender humbucker neck pickup. The Tele bridge pickup on my other Teles works well for how I play, but that stock Esquire pickup wasn't doing it for me.
Before I gave up on a great player I replaced the pickup with a more expensive pickup from someone else besides Seymour Duncan. I won't mention the manufacturer because pickups from them made my ES335 a pure joy to play, but that Tele pickup, even though it made a solid improvement, just didn't put that Esquire in the same league as my other Teles.
After some online study I found a good deal for a Jerry Donahue model Duncan pickup and decided on another pickup swap. The JD pickup got me there!! It has a delightful complexity and a killer spank. I knew that guitar had it in there. It just took the right pickup to let the guitar speak freely. :beerchug:
Jerry Donahue APTL-3JD has made me love my Esquire MIM Classic 50's!
I'm generally not a big pickup swappin' guy. I buy a guitar because I want what it is.
I got the hots for an Esquire some months back. I found a good new one at a price that I could live with.
My gigs are generally the Blues Jam sort of thing and I only bring one of my guitars on a given night and that's what I'll play. My other "Tele" guitars are a Nocaster Relic and a 1976 Telecaster Custom with a Seth Lover Fender humbucker neck pickup. The Tele bridge pickup on my other Teles works well for how I play, but that stock Esquire pickup wasn't doing it for me.
Before I gave up on a great player I replaced the pickup with a more expensive pickup from someone else besides Seymour Duncan. I won't mention the manufacturer because pickups from them made my ES335 a pure joy to play, but that Tele pickup, even though it made a solid improvement, just didn't put that Esquire in the same league as my other Teles.
After some online study I found a good deal for a Jerry Donahue model Duncan pickup and decided on another pickup swap. The JD pickup got me there!! It has a delightful complexity and a killer spank. I knew that guitar had it in there. It just took the right pickup to let the guitar speak freely. :beerchug:
