Early 80s Telecaster Elite pickups

[Mike Sulzer]

Things like that, is why I quit working for the public.

Also I would explain to the customer, everyone wants single coil sound, but don't want single coil hum and noise.
T

That seems a bit pessimistic in this case. The major cause in difference in sound between hbs and cis is the higher inducdtrance of hbs, causing a lower resonance and loss of highs. A less important difference is loss of the sound of higher string harmonics on the wound strings as a result of sampling with two spaced coils.

It appears that the first is not an issue here because the coils are somewhat under wound, but that needs to be verified. And since these pickups are narrower than standard hbs, the second difference is less of an issue as well. I would disconnect the both the mid and high boost in the preamp, and then resonate the pickups with Cs at reasonable fterquencies, damping as necessary. But you cannot know what would happen without some more analysis and experimentation. Worth it? Who knows.