opinions on tele pickups
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I think I switch to it from my '74 les paul custom in this at some point.. I cant remember..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q061EWhqhNQ
I am on the far left.
Or check these pictures as well... I dunno...
http://thatdudejeff.typepad.com/culture ... -book.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q061EWhqhNQ
I am on the far left.
Or check these pictures as well... I dunno...
http://thatdudejeff.typepad.com/culture ... -book.html
Last edited by joel hamilton on Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:43 am, edited 1 time in total.
So far I've gone thru quite a few myself..
Seymour Duncan 1/4 pound..way too hollow and squashy sounding
Wolftone p90 style..I like this one a lot
SD Antiquity..great pick up for the classic sound
Lil'59 I really like it for a distorted sound
I'll probably buy a tele just for the antiquity and keep swappng the rest when I feel like it.
Seymour Duncan 1/4 pound..way too hollow and squashy sounding
Wolftone p90 style..I like this one a lot
SD Antiquity..great pick up for the classic sound
Lil'59 I really like it for a distorted sound
I'll probably buy a tele just for the antiquity and keep swappng the rest when I feel like it.
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joel hamilton wrote:I forgot the guys name. They sell them at Main Drag Music here in Brooklyn...inverseroom wrote:Who custom made it? Do you have a pic?joel hamilton wrote:I have a custom made thinline with an original broadcaster pickup in it, and it is the best tele I have ever used.
Leather pickguard... It is "antiqued" and a bunch of othe rthings i usually dont love, but this tele just KILLS all the other ones I have ever owned, and I have owned 5 before this one. It seems to work with almost any amp or tone requirement for any song, from alt country to heavy metal stuff, it just works really well. I feel lucky to have it.
I will look for a pic...
JJ makes those teles. I think he calls his brand "Twangmaster"?
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Thats right. I got a good one from him that I really love, and I have had American standards, mexican reissues, japanese copies, a bunch of them. I really like this one.roscoenyc wrote:joel hamilton wrote:I forgot the guys name. They sell them at Main Drag Music here in Brooklyn...inverseroom wrote:Who custom made it? Do you have a pic?joel hamilton wrote:I have a custom made thinline with an original broadcaster pickup in it, and it is the best tele I have ever used.
Leather pickguard... It is "antiqued" and a bunch of othe rthings i usually dont love, but this tele just KILLS all the other ones I have ever owned, and I have owned 5 before this one. It seems to work with almost any amp or tone requirement for any song, from alt country to heavy metal stuff, it just works really well. I feel lucky to have it.
I will look for a pic...
JJ makes those teles. I think he calls his brand "Twangmaster"?
Have you ever checked out the twngtone tele's roscoe? id be interested to hear what your experience was, man.
Do you mean the Twangmaster that JJ Builds?joel hamilton wrote: Have you ever checked out the twngtone tele's roscoe? id be interested to hear what your experience was, man.
I've played 'em in the shop. They do seem pretty darn great. I'm pretty set for teles at this point w 6 of 'em. A 66, 68 and several custom built ones including the Stonetrees that were done to my spec. I use kinda heavy strings so its hard for me to tell whats up with a tele at the shop. Creston is making some good ones up in VT.
Years ago I got my first '66 tele custom and learned alot about that particular vintage ('66-68). They had maple caps and 2 string trees which some people didn't like but I think the extra mass in the headstock and the two pieces of wood on the neck make them great.
I sorta stumbled into the P-90 in the neck by accident. I a GIbson P-92 laying around and put it in my '68 cause it matched the whacked out color of the guitar. It works great as a neck pickup. The Humbucker never really does it because it needs a different pot than a single coil so one of the pickups isn't really operating at optimum. I forget if this neck pickup is called a P-92 or P-94? Fralin makes a great split single that going by one of those names?
Pic by the builder Phil Maneri at 5th Ave Fretshop in Columbus,OH
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Been using the SD Broadcaster for years. Well balanced, not too spikey in the highs.wrenhunter wrote:Not mine, but my brother has a Duncan Broadcaster in his bridge that sounds real nice.
For a little more mid oomph I have another Tele w/an SD Jerry Donahue.
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Broadcaster pickup is great in the bridge.... original, if you can find one, or the Duncan vintage Broadcaster is a real good close second. I have one Tele with a '51 Champ lap steel pickup in it, really great! It came out of a basket case. Please don't go out and destroy lap steels to get the pickups.
I played quite a few of JJ's Twangmasters at the Main Drag.... and if I wasn't so Tele-ed up I would own one.
I played quite a few of JJ's Twangmasters at the Main Drag.... and if I wasn't so Tele-ed up I would own one.
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