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Post subject: TELE PICKUP ?
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:56 pm
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I just took the pick guard off my tele for the first time and it has a cut out for a middle pickup. Why is that there and do all teles have that.

My tele is an american standard 2004 if that matters.


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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 11:38 pm
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Yeah, it's one of those annoying things they've done for a few years... I don't know why - is it so you can customize without routing, or is it a body route they use for a few models so they just do them all the same?

My US standard strat from 2002 is routed to fit humbuckers in the bridge and neck positions, even tho I bought one with three single coils because that's WHAT I WANTED. Why, oh why? Seems dumb to me, to be blunt.

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Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:52 am
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All modern Fender Teles and Strats have routes for extra pickups/humbuckers so they don't have to have multiple bodies for SSS Teles, SH Teles, HSS Strats, HH Strats etc etc. Fender can use the same bodies for all of these models and it cuts down on production time.

And if you want to put in a different pickup configuration you don't have to route out the guitar body. Back in the 90's, American Standards had what we call a "swimming pool" route under the pickguard. It was just one big empty hole!

If you want a Tele body that is routed true to the original, than you have to get one of the vintage reissues or similar. For example, my Baja Tele is only routed for bridge and neck pickups.

p.s. There is debate about the effects routing has on tone. If anyone can hear that you have a middle pickup route, then they are "hearing" with their eyes. It makes no difference.

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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 1:56 pm
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On another note, the reason for black wasn't a money issue, it was an assembly issue. Black dried the fastest and Ford's goal was to make A LOT of vehicles so everybody who wanted one, could get one.

He is called the father of the assembly line, and it had nothing to do with the cost of making the automobile itself.


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