Twisted Tele Neck Pickup

[jmgruber]

Can this pickup be purchased on its own, or will I have to find someone who is selling one from a guitar? Thanks.

[xjazzy]

You have to find it. Fender don't sell it alone.

[boris bubbanov]

It will not be easy to find used. Two things people seem to crave from this guitar, the neck and the neck pickup. I gave up trying to get them separate and just bought all the Bajas whole I could ever use.


Bubbanov

[Bluesbob]

the twisted Tele neck pup is a copy of the Hamel tall neck (?), which is supposedly similar to a pup that Don Mare is now offering. Of course, I might just as easily be totally wrong on this. But I do remember hearing (or reading) something like that somewhere.

[Johnny J]

Fred Stuart will wind you the same thing upon request.

[jmgruber]

Thanks for the answers.

[formerlyslim]

I have both the hamel tall neck and Don's Stelly. I prefer the stelly.

[spankdplank]

The Rio Grande Texas Tallboy has the longer magnet rods as on the Twisted Tele. A very bright, strat-ey sounding neck pickup, but it does not come with a chrome cover.

[RapidRoy]

Twisted Tele neck pickup - I may have one for sale. This may be the wrong place to post this but I was searching to try to find the value of a set of Baja pups. I have a Baja on the way, but I am going to swap out the pups. I had a Desert Sand model but I let my son use it in a trade for a car. I now have a blonde on the way. When I had the desert sand, I was having hum issues at the church where I play so I have decided to give the Dimarzio Area T's a spin.

[robrohdeszudy]

I got my baja bridge pup on Epay for $30 or 35. I let the neck pup go when it got over $50, and it went for $63. 'Course this is only one example.
--Rob

[Ringo]

FWIW, I've looked at the pics of the Twisted Tele pickups that are posted on eBay, most of them I've seen do NOT have the longer magnets, I've seen a few that may have come out of Fender Custom Shop guitars, they do have the longer magnets.
I think this is another case where Fender may have actually used the real Twisted Tele pu's when they released the Baja Tele, and then later swapped to cheaper pickups.
Fender did this with the Classic Player Strats too, at first they had Custom Shop pu's, now they just have some cheaper pu's.

This is not to say that the Baja neck pu's don't sound good, but most if not all of the newer ones don't have the real Twisted Tele neck pu.
My buddy has a Baja that he got new last year, it has the shorter magnets , the neck pu sounds good but I've heard plenty of other Tele neck pu's that I liked just as well.

[nasonm]

My John 5 tele was one of the earlier models and it came with the Twisted Tele. It is the best Neck pup I have ever heard in a tele.

[Unkie Al]

I just got a Baja last week and i wholeheartedly agree that it is indeed the best Tele neck pickup ever made!
IMHO, YMMV.

[RatherBeFishing]

I have one of the taller ones that came on a J5 but have yet to install it. It measures a 5.93k on my multimeter. This seems really low to me. Has anyone else measured this pickup?

How on earth does it stand up to the Enforcer in the J5 bridge?

[RockinCarl]

Twisted Tele neck pickups are wound with 42AWG wire while "traditional" Tele neck pickups are wound with 43AWG. Although its a low reading, its about equal to a traditional 43AWG neck pickup wound to 7k.

[RatherBeFishing]

Originally Posted by RockinCarl

Twisted Tele neck pickups are wound with 42AWG wire while "traditional" Tele neck pickups are wound with 43AWG. Although its a low reading, its about equal to a traditional 43AWG neck pickup wound to 7k.

ah, thats some good info!

[Realfi]

A couple of questions.

I have a twisted tele that came out of a CS Tele a while back that I'd like to put back in one of my guitars but I notice it has black, white and yellow wires and I can't for the life of me remember which is which! How should I wire it?

Secondly has anyone paired this pickup with either a Lollar GVCG bridge or a Budz Purebred?

OK...make it a few questions then! Does anyone happen to know what magnets were used in this pickup?

[tele0053]

What exactly is a twisted Fender pickup?
1)the makeup?
2)the design?
3)the sound?
4)the purpose?

Jusy Wondering,
thanks

[Chris Twang]

Hi,

I'm selling my Fender Baja pickups on ebay:
290255614396

Cheers, Chris

[Astro1176]

Originally Posted by tele0053

What exactly is a twisted Fender pickup?
1)the makeup?
2)the design?
3)the sound?
4)the purpose?

Jusy Wondering,
thanks

I'm wondering too - and I have one (well maybe, depending on this long/short magnet business).

Any pics of the long and short magnets? Also, why is it called 'twisted'?