Telecaster pickups doubts

[FernandoDuarte]

Hello guys... Kind of nonsense questions here...

1) I've heard once about a "nashville" tele been made by a brazillian luthier... but he put the middle p.u. UNDER the pickguard... So, I was thinking: I like the looks of the Esquire, would work if I put the neck p.u. under the pickguard, or would this sounds like shite?

2) I asked once to Tim, and looks like he asked it's not possible... probably everybody will agree... But I've deleted the email, so I can't remember exactly what did he spoke...
Was about a Telecaster bridge pickup with black poles, or no poles or something like "Seymour Duncan Hot Raills"...

He said something like would not work... Anybody knows something about?

Thank you!  :D

[TwilightOdyssey]

I think that would be asking a lot of a pickup to pick up the string vibrations through the plastic as well as the intervening space between the string and the scratch plate itself.

[Mr Ed]

Under the pickguard? Why bother at all?  :?

[WezV]

it can be done but it is too much of a compromise in tone.  basically you need to use stronger magents to get a good signal but obviosuly thats going to change the tone

most people agree that BKPs sound est when adjusted to just the right height  - cant do that with the pickup so far away