Warmest B'Knuckle Tele Bridge Pickup?

[rob]

 I have a partscaster that is quite bright and i'm trying to tame it a wee bit  Which tele bridge pickup in the B'Knuckle range yields the warmest/sweetest sound, the guitar is used for country picking string bending style of playing.
Rob

[38thBeatle]

Welcome. I regret to say that my only experience of a BKP Tele pickup is a set of Country Boys.These are traditional Tele and hark back to the early tones. I would describe them as warm inasmuch as you can with a Tele.They are certainly not shrill but obviously have the fairly bright Tele sound. That doesn't help you a lot. Maybe some of the guys here with Tele sets can help. I'd expect the Blackguards to be pretty good for this but I've no first hand experience and would prefer someone else with them to offer an opinion.

[PhilKing]

Probably the Yardbird or the Black Guard Flatpole.  Both are the mellower end of the Tele scale.

[Philly Q]

Not answering the question at all, but I'm wondering which Tele neck pickup is the warmest?

[Ratrod]

What sort of woods are we talking about?

And what kind of pickup is in there now?

I found the Blackguard 50 very well balanced. There's plenty of treble but it's nicely rounded and warm, not overly bright and piercing.

[MrBump]

Not answering the question at all, but I'm wondering which Tele neck pickup is the warmest?

When I was ordering I asked Tim for a Tele neck pickup with a warm, strat-like feel, and he said Flat 50.

Mark.

[Philly Q]

Cheers Mark, but I was thinking of the traditional bordering-on-muddy Tele neck pickup tone rather than something more Strat-like.  Although maybe with a touch more oomph without losing the warmth.

I sometimes think I'm the only person in the world who likes that sound.  :lol:

[AndyR]

I was reading the question, and 38th's first response, thinking "oh no, is that me? :lol:"

And then there's Philking's reply - many thanks, you've said out loud, from more experience, what I suspected. :D

Bridge:
I have both BG Flat 50 and Yardbirds, and I'd recommend both. The 50s are in ash-body/maple-board guitars, and the YB in an alder-body/rosewood-board guitar.

In those guitars, I'd say the BG 50 is fatter and raunchier, and the YB sweeter, more of an all rounder. If I'm going for country/rock/pop-rock, I pick the YB guitar. If I'm going for blues/country/blues-rock, I go for the BG equipped guitars.

At present, Yardbirds are my favourite, but that will change when I start work on a project that needs one of the other two guitars :D

Neck:
Philly, out of the two I have, the Blackguard neck is much nearer to what you describe than both the originals (Baja twisted tele neck, and, I believe, a Texas Special neck). It is also warmer and more rounded than the Yardbird neck.
The BG neck is great for my warm blues-type noodlings...
The yardbird neck, well...

[gush]
For me, the Yardbird neck is sublime - I don't know how to describe it even, but it will do lead, rhythm (even on crunch/distorted tones), everything, it is so yummy...
[/gush]

I love it...

I think you want the BG neck :lol: (unless there are others (Piledriver?) better...)

[Philly Q]

Thanks Andy, very useful.  :D

So I think I probably will end up with a set of Flat 50 Blaggards, after all, eventually.  Unless I go the Piledriver route.  I'd still like to know what the Boss neck sounds like though, can't remember anyone ever commenting on it.  And the BS, come to think of it.

But that's enough thread hijacking from me.

[rob]

Thanks....
 Tele is Alder body/maple neck with brass barrels on the bridge, at the moment the tele is wired as  strat switching with a Duncan 5/2 in the bridge, Duncan 5/2 for strat in the middle and a great pickup for the money is an Allparts mini hum in the neck(amazing little pickup) Really its the 5/2 which is Alinco 2 i was thinking of replacing. I know in theory the lower resistance pickups should give a warmer sound in some cases, depending on the magnets used.
Rob

[Ratrod]

Alder is on the bright side of neutral. Maple board is bright too. You can't go wrong with brass saddles IMO.

Hard to choose between Yardbirds and Blackguards for you.

The Blackguard was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted that early Esquire tone that was heard so much on the old Sun recordings. Folsom Prison Blues is a good example. But also that wall of sound rock of the seventies like Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

I can get country, rockabilly, punk and hard rock all from this one guitar.