idsnowdog
Imperator of Indignation
Fender has done a pretty good job of re-purposing their parts.
Tele control plates.
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Artie
Peaveyologist
You should feel no shame. I'm pretty sure that's the plate that was then used for the Squier 51. So you were on the mark.
Artie
Peaveyologist
And they look exactly the GFS's that sell for $40 ea. https://www.guitarfetish.com/KP--GFS-Gold-Foil-Single-Coil-Alnico-Humbucker-Shell-Chrome--Kwikplug™-Ready_p_21930.html
eclecticsynergy
Well-known member
Rutters sells alt Tele control plates: one has the volume knob a bit further from the blade switch, another has the blade switch angled, and a third is drilled for a toggle switch.
St_Genesius
New member
A bit off topic to the thread, but I have a Curtis Novak Gold Foil in the neck of a Tele and it's just about the FURTHEST thing from any of those old things.
Maybe all the ones I tried in 90s were just various degrees of busted. Maybe new ones aren't made the same? Maybe there was one good model in 1967 and the modern ones are all based on that one? I have no idea. But the Novak I have sounds kinda like a flubbier P-90.
Maybe all the ones I tried in 90s were just various degrees of busted. Maybe new ones aren't made the same? Maybe there was one good model in 1967 and the modern ones are all based on that one? I have no idea. But the Novak I have sounds kinda like a flubbier P-90.
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Artie
Peaveyologist
That "angled", with the 3/8" Volume set back, is just about a perfect Tele control plate. A little pricey, but not bad for plug-'n-play. Thanks for the heads up.
Edit: As I look around that page, I realize I've been their before. Just forgot.
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St_Genesius
New member
Hmmmmmm.
It is, objectively, a better pickup than the old ones I remember.
The sound I think of with old GFs (not to be confused with the GFS mentioned earlier) is a honky, almost band-limited, low-output squawk. Often with a side of microphonics.
The Novak is much hotter, very full-range (without becoming sterile) and just a hint of honk.
So it's a better pickup (or an ideally executed rendition of a design that was often executed poorly) unless what you want is for it to be a worse pickup... Which I kinda did.
It is, objectively, a better pickup than the old ones I remember.
The sound I think of with old GFs (not to be confused with the GFS mentioned earlier) is a honky, almost band-limited, low-output squawk. Often with a side of microphonics.
The Novak is much hotter, very full-range (without becoming sterile) and just a hint of honk.
So it's a better pickup (or an ideally executed rendition of a design that was often executed poorly) unless what you want is for it to be a worse pickup... Which I kinda did.
Furthest in a good way?
And it isn't off-topic. Anything to do with Tele controls or that guitar is ON topic.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
These seem cool.
Artie
Peaveyologist
That's exactly what I want. I even have those knobs.
