[pickslide]

What do people think? I love Keith Richard's tone and Rich Robinson from the Black Crowes. I'm looking at those teles with the humbucker in the neck position...I hear many people say that the little neck single coil typically in teles are kind of weak and don't use them. I really want that fat stones/crowes tone, but I also want that tele twang!

What does everybody think?

And, any opinion on new made in Japan fenders?

 

[Lester B. Flat]

I've got a '74 Thinline with the Seth Lover wide-range humbuckers. Monster tone. Sounds more like a 335 than a Tele, unless you hit it hard,then it starts sounding like a Tele. Yeah, give me humbuckers!evilGuitar:

 

[dwagar]

In the late '60s I had a '56 Tele with a P-90 in the neck position. It was a monster guitar. A humbucker would have been even better I think.

 

[chimo]

P90 in the neck is the way to go I think, I've got a duncan PhatCat in my neck position on one of my teles and I'm quite fond of it

 

[hoser]

I personally love the single coil neck pickup in my tele. i have a lil 59er in the bridge of mine that sounds fantastic.

 

[PaulS]

You could try the 4 way switch mod... in the forth position it puts the neck and bridge in series. Gives you a fat p90 sound and it doesn't cost much to try it. I did and I think it's great.

 

[Blue Apple]

I have nothing but good things to say about my CIJ '72 custom.

Great rhythm tones and the bridge pickup can cut through anything.

 

[sneakypete]

I love my tele customs because with the tone and volume pot for each p`up, I can dial in as much or as little of each as I like. Adds a lot of tonal possibilities to the tele.