The Chetboard

I have a tele and want to change the pickups i was thinking of putting a humbucker in the neck to get a more fuller tone any suggestions would be great thanks

I have installed all sizes of humbuckers in Tele's neck position.

The last two which I still have is the GFS Mini humbucker.
Some Tele's have the bathtub routing under the pick guard, but most will have to be routed for the humbucker to set down in there.

I have one mounted in a Black Pick guard that I will sell.

Email me if Interested = ptg1@roadrunner.com

The Allparts Mini Humbucker seems to work great in the neck position of my tele......
http://www.allparts.com/Mini-Humbucking ... 50-001.htm

Here's a clip of the pickup i did some time ago.....i'm not connected with Allparts in any way although they used the utube clip on their site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODh9_ab8pc

Rob(uk)

Brian,
I have a tele that I put Seymour Duncan stack humbuckers in that sounds great. I can go from a very bright tele sound to a very mellow sound. I used a Tele Little 59 for the neck pickup and a Vintage Stack for the bridge pickup. Except for my 1968 ES-335, this tele is the most versatile guitar that I have.
These pickups look like single coil pickups and fit in the guitar without routing.

Jim Prater

Hi Brian,

I had a Fender 1952 reissue Hot Rod Deluxe with a mini-HB at the neck position. I eventually sold the guitar, but here is a YouTube demo of the guitar, concentrating on the HB that you might find informative.

Good luck with the project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYb7H_65z0Q

thanks for the info guys I am going to research this a little more and i will post something when i change it

This guy built his own using components available online. I forget exactly which company made the guitar parts but he gets a pretty good sound out of it.

Excellent, excellent, player on top of it

http://www.youtube.com/user/chet1952

I reccomend you [u]all[/u] check his site out. He's added some New Stuff. The guy does an excellent note-for-note and you can see it all plainly