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Lucifuge

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Tele bridge with F'tron neck...silly idea?
« on: October 20, 2011, 08:44:05 PM »
For a future Tele-type project, I'm thinking about putting a Tele bridge pickup with something Filter'tron like (though probably in standard humbucker size) in the neck.

Is this likely to work tone-wise, or is it a bad idea? I realise the f'tron type pickups generally have pretty low output, so I'd probably use one of the lower-wound bridge pickups (Country Boy, or maybe BG 55.)

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Re: Tele bridge with F'tron neck...silly idea?
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2011, 08:45:39 PM »
I shouldn't know why not. The Filtertrons are twangy for a humbucker, so should nice go with a telebridge.
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Re: Tele bridge with F'tron neck...silly idea?
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2011, 11:21:00 PM »
Sounds good to me.  Fano make quite a few guitars with a Tele bridge pickup and a TV Jones neck.

http://www.fanoguitars.com/index.html

I don't think you need to use a low-output bridge pickup.  Some Filtertrons may have very low DC resistance but as I understand it the specs are very misleading.
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Re: Tele bridge with F'tron neck...silly idea?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2011, 08:54:43 AM »
Some Trussarts have that setup too, and in clips sound great  :)

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Re: Tele bridge with F'tron neck...silly idea?
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2011, 09:26:57 AM »
I realise the f'tron type pickups generally have pretty low output, so I'd probably use one of the lower-wound bridge pickups (Country Boy, or maybe BG 55.)
I have a Powertron in the bridge of a Telemaster style guitar and it's a lot louder than its DC rating would have you believe.