Help me pick new Tele pickups!

Pure vintage 64’s your such is over!

You’re welcome

They will do fine if you’re into rock and jazz, I’d have to say they are probably my favorite pickups

 

BYO set is A5 magnets and hum canceling in the middle position

I'd bet you'd like them a lot

 

When I've had pickups with "label" on it, I simply buy the appropriate color (usually black) paint pen, and go over the lettering. It's still there, but "disappears" from normal view.
That said, they're not offered on Amazon, but inexpensive direct from the builder.....Bootstrap Pickups. $50 for a pair?.....can't beat that, and these aren't cheap Asian imports. Check 'em out.
https://bootstrappickups.com/collections/t-style

 

Tonerider Alnico Blues, or Fender Tex Mex, if you install the metal baseplates.

 

I've used all of the Toneriders and I was impressed. The SD quarterpounder was the worst I've tested and used...that was out after one gig. One other set that I really liked were the Fender Texas Specials.

 

The 64's in my AV '64 are really good, if the Pure Vintage 64's are the same I recommend them.

 

I bought my 50s Road Worn Tele with the stock TexMex pickups. This is my experience.

The neck sounds great for jazz, very warm, and also sounds great and still articulate with gain. It's a little hotter than standard vintage, but not much. I do a lot of pickup swapping and keep going back to the TexMex neck pickup in my Road Worn. It's NOT twangy.

Check out this video for a report about the TexMex neck and how it sounds for Jazz:


The stock bridge TexMex sounds very good as well, with or without a base plate IMO (I've tried both ways). But I've ended up with a Cavalier Fat Lion in the bridge. Great for classic rock and blues. Still twangs a bit but not much. And the TexMex neck and Fat Lion bridge together make for a great fuller sounding middle position too. I've been playing with this combination for over two years and have no desire to make a change.

You can get a new Cavalier Fat Lion for $60. Not sure how much the TexMex neck alone is, but I'm confident you can get one for $40 or less.

 

I have three Teles with Fender Vintage labeled pickups. One with the older Original Vintage (brown box), one with the newer Original Telecaster Pickup set (red box) and another with the ‘64 set.

The ‘64’s are by far my least favorite. Just too bright for me (they were designed to be so) and I guess I am not a fan of A5 pickups. Now the other two sets sound great to me. A toss up between them, but very similar sounding. My favorite electric guitar sounds of all my guitars. I do only play clean and prefer warmer less bright sounds.

 

I run Quarter Pounders in my tele. They are more of a rock pickup. The neck can do clean but the bridge hits the amp hard and doesn't clean up nice. Huge mid focus and low mid, less highs.'

You might be well serviced by some Bill Laurence Microcoils. They are powerful and clear pickups that have adjustable pole pieces for volume and tone adjustment. https://www.wildepickups.com/products/micro-tele

 

Van Zandts

 

Music starts at 7:10.

 

Duncan Donahue in the bridge and a dimarzio twang king in the neck

 

He doesn't know, and is confusing them. He says they are stock. They came with TexMex.

 

Another recommendation for the AV64 set. Perfect Tele pickups. Plenty of twang, but also very nice bell tones in that neck pickup.

 

Bunches of great ones

and even noiseless ones too!