Tele bridge - punch, dynamic, sweet and great for fingerpicking

[pjd3]

Hello,

This thread is tad bit redundant to another previous one I made but, since then I'm thinking a tele type bridge is more compatible with the expectations of this guitar I'm in the process of building

It is for a 28.625 Tele type baritone (swamp ash body, maple neck with probably Pau Ferro fingerboard).
And the main feature of this baritone is that it is to be used for primarily fingerpicking as in acoustic style celtic fingerpicking, (not Mark Knofler electric style),
This guitar will probably be in DADGAD or Orkeny tuning, or some other Joni Mitchell or Michael Hedges strange tuning most of the time plus, I expect there will be a capo used quite often if not most of the time.
I've already chosen the Humbucker from Hell with S/C/P switch for the neck pickup but, I'm still shopping around for a Tele type pickup and Lipstick type that will both be down near the bridge and can be each on or off, and combined with the neck pickup in either series or parallel. I already drew out the switching scheme I want.
But back to the main bridge pick up. I'm focusing on a Tele pick up that will work well with this style of playing, punchy sweet attack, full trebles, wide dynamics, string note clusters resonating openly together, sounds beautiful with a good chorus effect (not mushed or congested), no overly thick low midrange (hate that), clear, pretty and powerful.

Its going to have a brass hardtail bridge for starters, maybe finishers, if it compliments the application well enough.

Any one every come across a tele pickup that fits this bill? Yeah, I'm not necessarily looking for snarly bite as in a country twang kind of thing per se, but just a good defined sweet attack with good string ring following the attack. Put it this way - if you were going to put a guitar bridge pickup on a harp to bring out the desired elements of the harp but make it big and balsy, what pickup would you choose? Ha. Strangest question I've ever asked.
Well, lets see where this goes.
Looking forward to your feedback,

Thank!
Best,
Phil Donovan

 

[Mincer]

That is asking a lot from a Tele pickup. I think the Jerry Donahue might work, especially for clarity with open tunings, and lots of ringing open strings. Another option is a Hot Rails wired in parallel instead of series.
If you were going for a Custom Shop creation, I'd suggest a Cool Rails Tele, with a series/parallel switch.

 

[pjd3]

Thanks for stopping by Mincer. The Jerry Donahue was one that I suspected based on many describing it. And I know that is expecting alot from a Tele but I've found Tele bridges are closer to what I'm looking for than many other models and had to wonder it there were any "versions" of the Tele bridge that leaned more in the direction of my description. There is a nice aggressiveness to a Tele bridge that I find offers a good dynamic "pop" to the sound when you pull on the strings. And I don't always expect the Tele pickup to live on its own, it will be able to go parallel with another pickup next to it, and all of that being able to go series/parallel with a humbucker that in itself can go series/cutcoil/parallel. I'm expecting at least the potential for a few usable combo's. The switching will done in such a way to offer many low DCR combos. I know DCR isnt the whole story but it can be associated with a higher resonant frequency based on other things, and I"m looking to stay as far away from mud and low mid congestion as I possibly can. So I figured it a good start. I can always go in a change it up to something else if it isnt up to snuff.

I will take a closer look at the cool Rails. You certainly arent the first one to suggest that pup for something like this.

Thanks again Mincer,
Best,
Phil