50's Tele pickups Q's - inductance, wire etc...

[belwar]

Seymour did that to old pickups years ago, so buy a Duncan and peel that.

I wouldn't put any credence in any of Fender's repros being close to the originals.

I recently heard the fender custom shop no caster set and it sounded REALLY good. Whether it was vintage accurate or not, it sounded really really good. One of my boys painted his baja tele and through them in there and it lit up the shop. two hours later I was building a tele :>

[David Schwab]

I recently heard the fender custom shop no caster set and it sounded REALLY good. Whether it was vintage accurate or not, it sounded really really good. One of my boys painted his baja tele and through them in there and it lit up the shop. two hours later I was building a tele :>

I guess their reissues vary greatly then. We can look at the Wide Range HB and Jazzmaster as two bad examples. Same deal with some of the basses. I guess you need the custom shop versions to get close.

Teles are fun.

[Possum]

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If you want to learn how to make a Broadcaster pickup TOTALLY the wrong way as regards to historic accuracy you don't want to buy a Duncan. I can't believe they even use that name on it, its not even remotely close to what they are. Fender's Nocaster isn't totally accurate but its one of the rare ones they actually got within a country mile of being real. Those year pickups are a bitch to build and their physical structure quickly changed to be more production friendly. The factory pickup makers don't make them authentically because there's no profit in doing them right. Corporate mentality is "lets make a reissue pickup, change this and that so we can make them cheap and fast, the kids won't know, after all they are just buying a name anyway."