Pickup choices to re-invent a tele

[roland_rat]

Hi,

To start with I am getting a new guitar made a Feline Tabby hybrid.  The guitar I expect to make one of my old guitars totally redundant.  So I am after reinventing the old guitar with a pickup change.  The guitar is a old Tanglewood Tele. It was my first electric guitar and while not the best guitar in the world, the plank has a nice tone to it and I am a lttle attached to it.  The guitar is alder body with a maple neck. It currently as a set of yardbirds in it. Which are really great pickups, though to ensure it gets the odd play I would like to swap the pickups.  

 I am thinking of turning the guitar into one I could play  a little jazz on.  Looking at the Bare knuckle range the manhattan sounds great though I am relucant to rout the guitar out to accomadate the larger pickup.  The same goes with a P90 I just dont fancy having he guitar routed.

Anyway I have been looking at loller pickups. (I love Bare knuckle pickups and have never been disapointed however I am not sure in this instance they make a pickup quite for what i am looking for.)   I like the sound of the Loller  Charlie  Christian pickups. Though certainly for the neck  one, their pickups would require routing.   However they do a  B.S. bridge pickup which sounds quite nice and would require no addional routing.  

So I thinking of one of the Loller B.S. bridge pickups and a bare knuckle neck pickup to try to complement it.

First off can any of you think of a Bare knuckle Tele bridge pickup that would do similar tones to the Loller B.S bridge pickup?

Secondly what Bare knuckle tele pickup do you think would complement the bridge pickup for a little Jazz and Jazzy blues?  I was wondering about a country boy neck pickup or one of the blackguard series neck pickups.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated (except Roo's! :D)

[Madsakre]

3 ceramic warpigs.. And a tesla rod

[Telerocker]

I can't find anything in the BKP-range that's similar to the Lollar-bridge. The Lollar-site tells it's ceramic and only 4.4K? It this right, cause they say the BS-bridge has the same output as the Imperial, which has 8.4K? I guess The Flat 50 has the midrange for jazz, but at the same time it might be to throaty and raw.

For the neck the Flat 50 could be an option. I'm not sure, I have the old set, which is now the 52-set. Anyway I play with the toneknob on my tele to get jazzy tones. Especially from the neck.

[CountFunkula]

I can't find anything in the BKP-range that's similar to the Lollar-bridge. The Lollar-site tells it's ceramic and only 4.4K? It this right, cause they say the BS-bridge has the same output as the Imperial, which has 8.4K? I guess The Flat 50 has the midrange for jazz, but at the same time it might be to throaty and raw.

For the neck the Flat 50 could be an option. I'm not sure, I have the old set, which is now the 52-set. Anyway I play with the toneknob on my tele to get jazzy tones. Especially from the neck.

The B.S. Bridge is 4.4k of 40 Gauge wire. That's BIG wire with a small amount of DC resistance compared to its actual output. I would probably pair a Boss neck or a Piledriver neck to match output and tone.