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Tele-Afflicted
I will admit that the humbucker is one of the most significant inventions in the history of guitar electronics. Whereas Gibson's P90 pickups, as well as many Fender guitars, had single coil pickups that caused a lot of hum and increasingly unwanted feedback, in 1957, Seth Lover created the humbucker, which would buck (IE cancel) is hum and buzzing of single coil pickups. The PAF pickup (as it was called) stood for patent applied for, and the patent was finally awarded in the early sixties.
Soon after, several other companies, including DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan, EMG, Fishman and Fender followed Gibson's lead. I don't generally like humbuckers on Strats, however, a lot of great superstrats from the Eighties have a humbucking pickup in the bridge position. I do however, think that the humbucking pickup in the neck of a Telecaster is pretty good, and is the closest thing to making a Telecaster sound realistically like a Gibson. There are lots of good Telecasters that have had humbuckers--Terry Kath's battered 1966 Fender Telecaster he used on all the vintage Chicago recordings had a Gibson SG humbucker in the neck of his Telecaster, which allegedly was the neck pickup of one of many Gibson SGs Terry used.
Andy Summers and Robbie Robertson were also known to play humbucking Telecasters. I don't think the bridge of a Telecaster should be humbucking, but I do like the Telecaster Deluxe and Telecaster thinline, so I guess humbuckers are okay on those Telecaster bridges.
Keith Richards also has a lot of modified Telecasters. His first one, Micawber, has a brass replacement bridge to accomodate 5 strings, with the humbucker in neck position and the nut cut, not evenly over the fingerboard, but with the first string modded to move over a little. Richards uses this Tele to play Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Woman.
Richards also has another Telecaster, Malcolm, which is also modified with a cut nut and humbucker in neck position, but this one stays capoed at the 4th fret and is tuned in B. Richards uses this Telecaster to play Tumbling Dice and Jumpin Jack Flash.
Nancy Wilson, the lead guitarist and singer in Heart, also has a heavily modified Lake Placid Blue 1963 Fender Telecaster, with a PAF humbucker in the Telecaster neck position, that Nancy has been using since the late Seventies. Whether the Telecaster already had the humbucker in it before Nancy acquired it, however, is unknown.
But if you guys have any humbucking Telecasters plase post it here.
Soon after, several other companies, including DiMarzio, Seymour Duncan, EMG, Fishman and Fender followed Gibson's lead. I don't generally like humbuckers on Strats, however, a lot of great superstrats from the Eighties have a humbucking pickup in the bridge position. I do however, think that the humbucking pickup in the neck of a Telecaster is pretty good, and is the closest thing to making a Telecaster sound realistically like a Gibson. There are lots of good Telecasters that have had humbuckers--Terry Kath's battered 1966 Fender Telecaster he used on all the vintage Chicago recordings had a Gibson SG humbucker in the neck of his Telecaster, which allegedly was the neck pickup of one of many Gibson SGs Terry used.
Andy Summers and Robbie Robertson were also known to play humbucking Telecasters. I don't think the bridge of a Telecaster should be humbucking, but I do like the Telecaster Deluxe and Telecaster thinline, so I guess humbuckers are okay on those Telecaster bridges.
Keith Richards also has a lot of modified Telecasters. His first one, Micawber, has a brass replacement bridge to accomodate 5 strings, with the humbucker in neck position and the nut cut, not evenly over the fingerboard, but with the first string modded to move over a little. Richards uses this Tele to play Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Woman.
Richards also has another Telecaster, Malcolm, which is also modified with a cut nut and humbucker in neck position, but this one stays capoed at the 4th fret and is tuned in B. Richards uses this Telecaster to play Tumbling Dice and Jumpin Jack Flash.
Nancy Wilson, the lead guitarist and singer in Heart, also has a heavily modified Lake Placid Blue 1963 Fender Telecaster, with a PAF humbucker in the Telecaster neck position, that Nancy has been using since the late Seventies. Whether the Telecaster already had the humbucker in it before Nancy acquired it, however, is unknown.
But if you guys have any humbucking Telecasters plase post it here.
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) and wound a reverse polarity Strat pickup for the neck with a 4 way switch. Monster humbucker sounds running both 
