I agree with Twinfan - I always give a new guitar a go with it's existing pups for while to see how it's going to work for me (except when I bought a guitar to put a specific set of BKPs in that I had already! That one lasted 30mins after I got it home :lol:)
However, when you've done that... I think you might be talking about Yardbirds.
They're sweet, articulate and mellow, and then when you push it, the bridge handles rock tone extremely well, cutting through a mix nicely (the neck's usable for this as well, much more so than most tele necks seem to be). I've found them to be very good for layering guitar parts, where my favourite tele pups (Blackguard Flat 50s) wouldn't have worked quite so well...
By the way, my Yardbirds are in an alder bodied, rosewood fingerboard tele - not sure how they would differ in the maple boarded CV? But from memory (I tried a few when they first came out) I think the CV pups are aiming at the same sort of tele character that the Yardbirds are.
Hope that helps :D
