This confuses me. The BG52 is the old BG50 but the new blackguards are the BG50 with 10k? Huh!? :? Edit- Oh I think i get you, you're saying the new BG50 has 10k output but the new 52 is more vintage with 7.1k.
Yeps, that's it :the pickup set formerly known as "BGF50" is now the BGF52. The "new" BGF50 is a different animal. So most of the mentions, clips, reviews etc about the BGF50 are actually about the BGF52. And it's indeed quite confusing :-/
Thanks so much for the clips, I recently purchased the Blackguard 52 bridge to put in my deluxe tele.
I'm thinking of getting a neck blackguard flat 52 as well and completely getting rid of the S1 switching function.
I think you wont regret it. The BGF52 neck is a true gem, not the most typical Tele neck but IMHO the best I've ever played - a bit on the stratty side but way less polite.
Can anyone tell me if the deluxe tele (2008) will have the right tone pots in them?
The standard pot value for fenderish single coil pups is 250K. If that's what you have (should be written on the back but you can check it by yourself with a multimeter) then it's ok.
Oh and by all means:
1/ get yourself a 4-ways switch and specify it when ordering your neck pickup (see below)
2/ get rid of those cr@ppy ceramic tone caps and replace them with something meant to work for audio (PIO, mkp etc)
About the 4-ways switch: it gives you the 3 usual positions (bridge alone, bridge+neck parallel, neck alone),
plus a 4rth position which is bridge+neck serie. Two single coils wired in serie gives you the meat and output level of a 'bucker (without, in this case, the humbucking effect but you don't care - else you wouldn't use single coils), and it really works fine with this set. It requires a small mod on the neck pup wiring, but BKP will do it for free if you do ask for it when ordering. So you have nothing to loose (except for the cost of the switch itself but that's close to peanuts) and really something to gain.
my 2 cents
