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Post subject: Confused about the pickups on this fender squier tele?
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:22 am
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Hi there,

this is my first post on here, so I hope this works and things :)

I'm about to purchase a fender squier telecaster off of ebay, however the pickups aren't the same as if I bought it new. I know this could be a good thing, but also a bad thing, and I'm a bit of a newbie still when it comes to this stuff. Could anyone tell me from the picture what they are and if they generally give a better sound? obviously the second part of the question is opinion, but I'm looking for a pretty clean sound, as close to a real tele as possible :) The guy who's selling it said this: "Mine is different in that the neck pickup is not the spec single-coil pickup, instead it is modelled on the duncan-designed humbucking pickup (although it is not duncan-designed). Please feel free to research the pickup and let me know, as I am still unsure of what it is exactly after some of my own!"

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Post subject: Re: Confused about the pickups on this fender squier tele?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:28 am
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Well, your picture didn't come out. You have to use photobucket or something else and link it on your post. Either way it wouldn't make much difference if he says it's not a Seymour then it could be anything. I'm pretty happy with generic pickups but I like to know where they are from. I like alinco magnets or overwound or noiselss. He's got to give you something to go by.

You are obviously not buying a stock tele, it's been modified so it's not going to sound like a standard tele. What you are looking for is a well taken care of instrument at less than retail otherwise you might as well buy it new.

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Post subject: Re: Confused about the pickups on this fender squier tele?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:41 pm
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Sam,

That looks like a stock Squier "Fat" Tele, the neck humbucker is stock. I have a cream one with the serial #IC00******** (made by cort in 2000). The neck PU is pretty good as is, but the bridge single coil is weak. I replaced the bridge PU with a Seymour Duncan Lil 59, very well balanced with the stock neck PU (black and green wires of the lil 59 need to be reversed to be "in phase" with the neck). Hope you bought it, mine is one of my favorites.


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