Old Tele bridge pickup question

[DADGAD]

Years ago, my favorite Tele had a bridge pickup like the one at the bottom of this picture. All six magnets are raised and there is black string wrap over the coil. It gave a great early Jimmy Page tone through an old blonde 2X12 Bandmaster.

Who makes an aftermarket pickup like this?

Thanks for your help!

[dafack01]

Voodoo TE60's Black Bottom. It's wound to the specs of the late 50's/early 60's staggered pole pickups (Jimmy Page's Tele is a 1958 model), and he uses the same winding pattern on the TE60's as the pickups from this era had. I've got one I just installed a couple weeks ago in my Muddy Waters Tele. By turning my 1X12 tweed Champ clone to about 9.5 and playing with the guitar's volume control and the tone control at about 8 or so, I get a great Led Zeppelin I tone. Mine can have a touch more grind if I'm not careful (of course, I don't have that Vox Tonebender he used either), but I ordered one that was wound hot enough to compete with a P90 in the neck position. With as much wire as my pickup has on it, It's amazing that it still has this much punch, articulation, and sparkle. I can't recommend Voodoo pickups enough.

www.voodoopickups.com

Call Peter up and talk to him. He's hard to get a hold of. Keep calling him every hour, hour and a half or so (with a Cell phone you don't get any Long Distance charges). He's REALLY helpful when you get him on the phone. I've ordered both a TE50's and a TE60's bridge pickup from him and they were exactly what I wanted and exactly how he described them.

[DADGAD]

Those Voodoos look sweet. Is there any websites with pictures by year of Tele bridge pickups?

Gary

[dafack01]

Not that I know of. I think that he got the string color backwards though. He uses black string on his TE50's (which I've got as well) and White string on his 60's models. All I really know is that Fender switched to the staggered pole pickups in 1955. 1950-54 Teles used the flatpoles. I'm not sure when they put the flatpoles back into production. Page's tele is a 1958 model, and a top-loader at that (not a string-through body).

BTW, I've figured out why my pickup has a little more grind than Page's: I've got the grey bottom which has more sparkle than the black bottom (the grey bottom uses alnico 5 magnets). At first, I thought that "grey bottom meant that it has the tin baseplate. Then I realized that "grey bottom" meant it has a grey fiberboard bottom to it instead of the black (and a copper baseplate). They both use a copper baseplate.

The first time I called Peter, I didn't know exactly what I was looking for. This is how he described the difference between the TE50's and the TE60's: The TE50's sounds like Roy Buchannan, and the TE60's sounds like Jimmy Page.

They grey bottom pickups sound enough like Jimmy Page on their own. Just a little less sparkle and you're there. That's what the black bottom pickups will give you.

I found a website with TONS of pics of teles. You'll be able to see the pickups on these pics.

http://tele.chookindustries.com/