Quarter Pound Lead for Tele Bridge/ Five/2 for Tele neck

[Nostalgic Distortion]

I'm going to be dropping some new puppies into my newest Telecaster sometime over the next few days & it looks like I'm going with a Quarter Pound bridge. I've got a Q.P. lead in one of my other Tele's & I like it quite a lot! That guitar has a Phat Cat in the neck and the two pickup's together are just beautiful & extremely well balanced! So much so that it is my opinion that Duncan should really start selling them as a Telecaster set!!!

Anyway, I know that I'll like the Q.P. but I have zero experience with the Five/2 Tele neck pickup. How do you guys think the two pickup's will pair up with each other? I'd also love to hear some general thoughts on the 5/2 neck pup. Basically what you thought about its tone, output, & probably most importantly it's clarity? I know finding a very clear sounding rhythm pickup for a Telecaster is a bit like trying to start a fire under water but I was kinda hoping that the combination of alnico 2 in alnico 5 magnets might lend some clarifying qualities to the pickup?

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Quarter Pound Lead for Tele Bridge/ Five/2 for Tele neck

Fire under water? The Fender '51 NoCaster neck/Rhythm position pickup. Screwed directly to the body. NOT suspended through the pickguard.

I have an SD Antiquity Tele neck/Rhythm pickup. Nice output but I wish that the polepiece rod magnets under the plain strings were Alnico 5 rather than Alnico 2. For my tastes, the Five-Two is the wrong way around. I would need a left-handed version.