I've not tried a Piledriver, but it was on my "maybe" list when I was sorting out my teles a few years ago. In fact, I've still got my first tele (a MIK Squier with plywood body that I got very cheap second hand in the 90s and it did sound very good - a little bit like the few thinlines I tried a few years ago), it's in the loft in pieces, and there's a vague ongoing plan to "Esquire it" one day with a Piledriver.
I seem to remember reading on here (from Tim) that although it's regarded as "modern sounding" the Piledriver is in fact based on the original type of pickup that Fender put in the first Broadcasters - the kind of pickup that was being being used for lap-steels at the time - and that it was quite a serious beast.
Yep. I think it will give you a beefy tele capable of kicking some serious @rse but very sensitive to use of controls and varying pick attack.
To quote another user on here (Fernando, especially in regard to Piledrivers) - "DO IT!" (and he also says "Pics or it didn't happen" :lol:).
If you've got one already, it sounds like you owe it to yourself to give it a try :D
