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Post subject: Big Block Tele?
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:52 pm
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Anybody have one of the Big Blocks?

I'm hot rodding a MIA standard- I laminated birdseye maple to the top and did a black-white-black binding, some inlay and I've routed for the middle pup. I've opted to use stacked double coil SD pups, the chrome dome are custom shop

my question is how much different does the Big Block sound from a Strat? I'm wondering if there's a need to split the coils? (I have a Strat with early lace sensors)

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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 8:41 am
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If the Big Block Tele has a normal Tele Bridge pickup, then it probably sounds nothing like a strat when the bridge pickup is being used. I said it in a thread earlier this week, just because the Tele and Strat are both guitars with single coil PUs, they usually sound nothing like one another, because the single coil bridge PU on a Telecaster is different than the single coil bridge PU on a strat. A Tele single coil bridge PU should (or typically) has a metal plate beneath the PU that gives the Tele the twang that everyone talks about. So if you had a Tele with a strat PU config, but a normal Tele bridge PU in it, it will sound more like a Tele than a strat because the actual PUs have more of an effect on the sound than the fact that they are both 3-single coil PU guitars.

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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:04 am
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SD Lil 59 in the bridge-

I've actually most preferred the neck pick-up sound... course I suppose if was really truly happy with the stock Fender sound I'd stop changing out pups on em
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then again , they're "sound" is for specific songs (or if I break a string on my main guitar)

but thanks! you answered my question


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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:18 pm
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bowlfreshener wrote:
A Tele single coil bridge PU should (or typically) has a metal plate beneath the PU that gives the Tele the twang that everyone talks about.


I always thought that the metal plate on the bottom of the bridge pickup was a grounding device. My Duncan Quarter Pounder doesn't have the metal plate on the bottom and my Tele still twangs like a Mofo. :D

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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:47 pm
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mthorn00 wrote:
bowlfreshener wrote:
A Tele single coil bridge PU should (or typically) has a metal plate beneath the PU that gives the Tele the twang that everyone talks about.


I always thought that the metal plate on the bottom of the bridge pickup was a grounding device. My Duncan Quarter Pounder doesn't have the metal plate on the bottom and my Tele still twangs like a Mofo. :D


Thats why I said, "typically", because there are always exceptions to the rule 8)

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bowlfreshener wrote:
mthorn00 wrote:
bowlfreshener wrote:
A Tele single coil bridge PU should (or typically) has a metal plate beneath the PU that gives the Tele the twang that everyone talks about.


I always thought that the metal plate on the bottom of the bridge pickup was a grounding device. My Duncan Quarter Pounder doesn't have the metal plate on the bottom and my Tele still twangs like a Mofo. :D


Thats why I said, "typically", because there are always exceptions to the rule 8)


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