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Post subject: Need some help with pickup selection
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 12:55 pm
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Hello guys! I have a 1999 Fender Telecaster Standard (MIM). It has no value whatsoever, yet it has sentimental value. Even though I don't even play guitar - I'm a bassist - I would like to give a new life to the Tele.

I was thinking about the "standard" changes:

- new pickguard
- new bridge
- new tuning machines
- new pickups
- new electronics

I'm pretty sure the neck and body is similar to the MIA Fenders. Or not?! :shock:

I have a question though. I really like the neck pickup of the Telecaster 72 Deluxe, yet this is an humbucker. No problem about that, yet to fit one on my Tele I would need to drill the body. I don't have any tools to do that.

So my question is: is there any humbucker pickup I can fit here with a single coil size? Like a direct replacement?

Another thing I'm having issues with is the electronics. This guitar kills me with so much hum, so I'm going to replace all the electronics. Since I'm doing that, is there anything I should get to get rid of the hum forever? What about pots? 500K? I want to keep some "Tele twang" yet I also want to add some "darkness" to the sound.

I'm not sure what to get in case I can't fit the 72' humbucker on the neck, yet I'm thinking as an alternative a Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pound there, and a 51' NoCaster Fender pickup on the bridge. Trying to mix two different worlds. The kind of tone I'm looking for is something more into british rock. Think Blur, Radiohead, Pulp, etc...

Any ideas will be welcome!

Thank you very much!


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