Originally Posted by DC Ron
Nice, Herb. That should give you some new tone options for sure. You didn't mention it, but you could split your new pickup as well. Had a strat with three split single-coil-size humbuckers and a 5-way switch. Ten sounds, seven of them hum cancelling. It was a lot of fun. Enjoy!


I've never really used split pickups as a function. Yeah this guitar has the coil switch but I rarely use it. I leave it in-phase all the time. I like the beefier gutsy sound. So that wasn't something I had even thought about. As it is, I have 5 pickup combinations and the tone knob to get the variations and if I don't like that there's always my 69 Gibson SG custom with the factory pick-ups that has always been a good sounding guitar.

I bought the tele as a work guitar because my SG is getting a little bit worn out.... It could really use a fret job and some other work but.... The luthier that looked at it, and he is highly regarded for his craftsmanship in the guitar community, said he wouldn't really be comfortable working on it because he'd never be able to get the binding off in one piece and he would have to do a lot of replacement parts . Not an impossible job but cost wise, way more than the guitar was worth and likely way more than I would want to put into it. It's still totally playable and raising the strings slightly avoids the fret buzz to get a few more years of playing it. Since I don't use it much.... It's not going to be a problem. Anyway.... Long winded story ...I digress .

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