If you already own a Standard Tele and want the neck humbucker, you might consider installing one of the Stacked Humbucker designs into your existing Tele. These do not require any routing, or other nonreversible changes to the axe, they fit in the same place as the original neck pup and the wires simply soldered in place. KEEP THE ORIGINAL PICKUP.

Seymour Duncan is the brand I once used.

Turned a standard old blonde Tele into more of a blues machine for me.

There is a difference in the sound here, the Stacked Humbucker didn't quite have the bark of a double coil hummer, but in actual use that did not matter as much as having no humbucker in the neck at all. I could easily make up for that at the amp. Set all knobs but Master Volume to 7 and wail away.


--Mac