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Originally Posted by Deaf Eddie
....although many players find that coil-shunting the single coil-sized humbuckers just gives them a drop in gain, rather than a new and different timbre as it does with full-sized humbuckers. So, your bridge pup would be working as a single-coil pickup, but it wouldn't SOUND like a Tele single-coil bridge pickup - just a weaker version of its humbucker tone.
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Just been there, just done that (with my li'l '59). Dr. Deaf Eddie is absolutely correct; all it does is drop the gain, nothing like doing the same on a full sized 'bucker.