Need Tele pickup advice...

[grizdeluxe]

I am building a traditional looking Tele with a Warmoth Ash body and a maple neck with jumbo frets. Finish will be butterscotch, and pickup configuration will be lipstick at the neck and single coil in the bridge.


I am looking for the beefiest single coil I can find for the bridge, and in the neck pickup I would prefer a traditional sounding pickup with lots of twang.


TIA

[bilbal]

Duncan Antiquities.

[Polynitro]

I'm assuming you mean a trad Tele neck pickup and not a lipstick pickup...Check out Don Mare's 0038 or Tweed monster sets.

[Teleman]

The Duncan Broadcaster is one of my fav bridge pickups.

[K-Line]

Lollar J-street or Special in the bridge, Vintage in the neck.

[jaydawg76]

I'm assuming you mean a trad Tele neck pickup and not a lipstick pickup...Check out Don Mare's 0038 or Tweed monster sets.
+1 for Don M's 0038 bridge. That's the beefiest bridge pup you find, it sounds killer!!!

[Gas-man]

Harmonic Design S-90 in the bridge is beefy as they get.

[daddyo]

I use and recommend the Seymour Duncan Jerry Donahue bridge. The Duncan Alnico II neck is a good match.

[jetlag]

I have a Don Mare 0038 and it is really beefy - just about perfect sounding to my ears. I actually own a hotter rear tele pickup that ISN'T mush - it's a really overwound voodoo 60's TE. It's actually hotter than the 0038 by a small margin - but overall I prefer the Mare. I've paired my 0038 with his stelly front pickup and thinks it's great. I prefer it to others I've tried - a hamel tall neck, a voodoo (2nd) attempt at a "stelly" , a custom overwound twangking, barden, budz's take on a hamel tall neck, vintage tele front .......... Don really nailed it. I can't imagine doing much better unless you have something wound for you sans the cover. Maybe a fralin blues special w/o the cover or something similar.

[SgtThump]

I dunno man... I have the thickest sounding Tele I've ever heard with single coils and believe it or not, they're the Fender Noiseless models. I don't know for sure if it's the guitar itself or the pickups, but my Tele is SUPER thick. Not traditional sounding on the bridge at all. I'm a bridge humbucker type of guy, but I have and can easily get through a full night of loud hard rock using this US Tele with the Noiseless pickups. It has a hint of single coil tone, but not much.

[clemduolian]

If its ANYTHING Tele pickup related, go to Don Mare. If he doesn't make it/wind it (unlikely, but possible) he knows where to find it. DM is de man.