Charlie Christian neck pickup in a Tele...school me and what's your go to pickup?

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Title says it all. Looking for thoughts, comments and opinions on running a Charlie Christian pickup in the neck position of a Tele and which ones have you tried and what did you stick with? Thanks!
 
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I've been through a few of these, and always go back to Biltofts.

For me, the Christian (especially the Biltofts) are like a fat strat neck pickup. Thick and chewy, but cleaner than a p90, with a nice ring when clean.

Here's the one I've been playing lately, pine body, set-up as a tele. I used a strat body because I had a baritone neck on it for a while, and wanted to counter the neck-dive from the longer scale.



Here's another parts guitar I built several years ago. Let my singer borrow it one night, and she wouldn't give it back, made me sell it to her.
 
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Another Vintage Vibe (Biltoft) user here. CC Rider combo neck and bridge.

Love the sounds I get from both.

 
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Martin Guitars in Memphis has a limited run of G&L ASAT Classics with Lollar CC neck pickups and standard G&L bridge pickup. I haven't dared to try one yet for fear of GAS, but they look cool as cool can be.
No affiliation, just a satisfied customer from prior dealings.
 
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Love the partscaster one I made:







Also Vintage Vibe. I love it.
 
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I've had a VV CC rider and a Lollar CC in a humbucker size. Loved the sound of both. Absolutely hated the strong hum from them. Without a doubt the most noisy single coil pickup ever.
 
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I've got a Lollar CC in humbucker format in my tele. Sounds great. zztomato is right - they've got substantially more noise than some other pickups.

It sounds absolutely wonderful for jazz.

It can sound good for other stuff too - but imo jazz or clean'ish playing is where they really shine.
 
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Kelsey said:
Martin Guitars in Memphis has a limited run of G&L ASAT Classics with Lollar CC neck pickups and standard G&L bridge pickup. I haven't dared to try one yet for fear of GAS, but they look cool as cool can be.
No affiliation, just a satisfied customer from prior dealings.
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SOB!!
I had a dealer contact G&L to do this very thing.
They told me to get stuffed.
Actually, they didn't. They simply declined saying they didn't do that type of custom work.

I can't help but be a bit put off none the less.

Now off to Martin site...
 
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My very first decent guitar -a Warmoth, 'hog-bodied, all maple necked, dual hun-cut 'Tele', built in the late 80's- currently sports a Gibson P92 in the bridge and a Vintage Vibe H-sized C. Christian in the neck. Finally found a perfect combo there... nice hot and fat bridge and a nice sweet fat mid-rangey neck, nice honky, funky tones in between. Really covers a LOT of tonal variety.
 
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I have the Lollar, which came in my guitar. Never tried any others. Strong output and I like the tone—mellow sounding trebles yet clear and defined low notes. Noisier than other pickups, I guess, but usually not a problem.


Here's a clean tone vid I made a few years ago. Phone video, so less than ideal. Sounds fatter in person.

 
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