What Is The Difference Between a Stratocaster Pickup And A Telecaster Pickup

[@davidgrenier3436]

Thank you for talking to me like an adult. No silly faces or wacky voices. Subscribed. 👍

[@aaronmaiden3606]

Ok boomer

[@cjaquilino]

Club Soda He means KZbinr that do ridiculous stuff for attention: silly faces in thumbnails and putting on fake personalities. It’s whatever to me. But it absolutely is ridiculous.

[@SiameseDream97]

Steve terreberry

[@matthewtayloryowieresearch1912]

Indeed, some presenters' of guitar channels on YT would suit Barnum & Bailey's or The Wiggles better, farcical spasmodic bodily gyrations idiotic leering grimaces stupid sound-FX & puerile ridiculousness is de-rigeur for some guitar channels (whyTF?). Dylan's no-bs no-carrying-on like a drunk 14yr old & sensible sound & sane attitude is what guitar channels NEED as well as accurate helpful information. Freaky faces & daft voices are not why I am {we are, educated guess says I speak for the majority, surely?) here. Primal screeching & grotesque gurning does zero to help this guitarosaurus upon his guitarcheology odyssey of 42 of my 51yrs above-ground (so-far). David & Syro obviously know what I mean? Terreberry... snort... don't make me projectile blast my coffee a'la-firehose-style out my flaring nostrils all over the joint like a mad woman's sh*t!.. (nearly trashed my keyboard with nostril-coffee inundation...! 'strewth! that was close, man!). Great work Dylan, you know a Schaller from a Grover from a Gotoh, a LTD from an AIO from a G&L, one end of a fretboard from the other so subbed for these reasons & like Syro said your no-nonsense d*ckhead-free zone. Just added a Squier J.Mascic Sig Jazzmaster to my guitarsenal, it plays just gr8, stays tuned even after punishing the trem-bar too - recommended. Great vid Dylan, thanks for this & all the others I'm surely going to binge-watch real soon. Cheers, peace, far far too much guitar is grossly insufficient, woefully inadequate, nowhere near enough & be nice to ya missus! Didyabringyabongalong Station, Central Queensland, Australia.

[@BobaFettBountyHunter]

What is Jell-o and how did it get in his pickup?

[@axilleas]

In the 12 years I've been playing guitar I think this is the first time I see someone who actually knows his shit... There is still hope!

[@Peasmouldia]

You say that like you think 12 yrs is a long time.

[@axilleas]

Ian Bunyan longer than some, shorter than others. The thing is after more than a decade of pseudoscience finally I came across someone who doesn’t talk “mojo”, “voodoo” or whatever.

[@Peasmouldia]

@@williambhurt I was a choirboy and learnt music theory 1963-67. Started playing guitar 1966. (Age12).

[@Peasmouldia]

@@williambhurt There was absolutely no intended criticism in my comment, you infered it.

[@Peasmouldia]

@@williambhurt Thanks for that. I need to learn that irony doesn't come over well on KZbin comments.

[@CainPeel]

You should definitely continue this with other pickup types

[@garydmercer]

I've been playing electric guitar for 47 years now. Thank you for explaining the difference in the pickups which I never understood. Excellent. I subscribed to your channel and find it a valuable resource.

[@zigzagrz]

Great explanation and vid. I'm gonna add a metal base plate to all my guitar's pups and to everything else in life, to change its tone and while I'm there, an extra ground.

[@DragonofLimerick]

I KNEW there was a shin bone in my tele! Very cool though!

[@gingerbeer914]

@BLOGAN BURGESS kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYjVaaOamLOBb68 Humans don't have 'love bones', except for John Lennon and Jim Carrey of course. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2Gqq2iwl6yChM0

[@mal2ksc]

Hey, they had to reinforce the neck somehow before the truss rod was invented. Only long, mostly straight bones are useful that way. :)

[@walterkersting1362]

My bone nuts are made from the shin bone of Vietnamese water buffaloes...

[@hkguitar1984]

Your graphics are just about perfect to describe and illustrate the differences of design and the magnetic field. Thanks, great content Sir.

[@MrKentaroMotoPI]

Show us a Jaguar pickup, dude!

[@AndrewKarczewski]

I second that!

[@xbmpr]

I would like a tear down as well bc I know it’s just an improved strat pickup but I’m not sure how.

[@dnantis]

Yeah do that !

[@scottmclennan6114]

Very interesting mate. Those visuals were very useful.

[@joeykelly5642]

Great video! Glad someone on KZbin is taking a scientific approach to understanding how tone works.

[@jvin248]

I like that overlay insertion you did of the flux line fields images from that other site. Couple of notes: thickness of that plate is important, 1/8th inch seems to be the best balance, thinner doesn't do much, 3/16th can work (rummage through your junk drawer/bin! I've found a house electrical octagon box cover cut to the shape works great.). The steel plate needs to be in contact or close contact to the magnet rods. A steel plate added to a Strat pickup can do the same thing too. Twang in a Tele comes from picking between the bridge and saddles, the Strat can twang too if picked there but people run into the volume knob and the strap pins set the body back to the right more and so people strum closer to the middle and neck pickups.

[@DylanTalksTone]

Lol 1/8 is waaaaay too thick.

[@neutrodyne]

Bottom line is Change the magnet field or change the magnetic properties or change anything to do the magnetic structure of a pickup and you change the sound of the pickup. Dylan done a good job on explaing it.

[@whatyoumakeofit6635]

Boy its a good thing your able to hold your hands steady. Lol. Great job on the illustrations and explanations.

[@roberthastings708]

I watched this again today. I'm finding that another time around allows me to see more comments. Here's mine: I like the white board but the blue graphic was great!! You've addressed this several times and each time you are clear and understandable. Thank you!!!

[@zmix]

I appreciate your ability to explain these simple physical concepts, Dylan. It's important to de-mystify these things, as the internet (aka "teh internetz") in so full of anecdotal conjecture. I'd like you to do one of these to help people understand how the Telecaster bridge cover acts in conjunction with the baseplate to further focus the magnetic field, and similarly the metal covers on a Precision and Jazz Bass. I feel that these are an integral part of the sound design of these instruments, and yet so many players remove them, and then search for "better" pickups - not realizing they have actually removed a design component of the pickup itself. Thanks.

[@johnnybgoode1950]

How interesting, to learn that a pickup's sound is determined by more than magnets and windings.

[@mal2ksc]

The baseplate effectively becomes part of the magnet, so this is still a case of the magnet affecting the sound. Your old view is still right, if you think about it that way.

[@johnnybgoode1950]

​@@mal2ksc I think of the baseplate more as reshaping the field of the magnets since it has no magnetic properties of its own, but I agree that it could be thought of in the way you describe.

[@russellzauner]

@@johnnybgoode1950 the baseplate affords not only electromagnetic field shaping (if right materials) but a larger surface area and more solid coupling with the body of the guitar. Everything, even if your eye cannot detects it, moves in this assembly, so the transmission of physical vibrations through the medium can also effect field by flexing that plate further in the already dynamic relationship the string/pickup loop is. This is how you get character and unique tone signatures from instruments - the latency in the loop between the strings that you've fretted and the bridge/nut is different than the latency of those same vibrations being radiated and applied to the pickup joint, which is electronically coupled - still mechanical, but of a decidedly different nature and usually attached to amplification systems so when those vibrations come from the cabinets themselves, they also enter the guitar as it is now a receiver in the external vibration coupling model. We can also talk about reverse headstocks too if you like...

[@russellzauner]

when you've got tones with natural variations in frequency hitting each other at different times you can get an a mazing array of sonic behavior out of an instrument, especially if it's got sustain from hell and your finger tone is "good enough".

[@johnnybgoode1950]

@@russellzauner I would imagine the added weight of the steel baseplate is also a factor in mechanical loop behavior.

[@timothy5974]

Had no idea this is why they sound different,interesting. Great video

[@mattpedro983]

Excellent explanation. The little magnetic field drawing made it crystal clear for me to understand. Thanks!

[@TheGadgettracker]

Great vid! After 45+ years playing, I finally know the reason!

[@d3w4yn3]

For the record.... I said "shin bone" right at the same moment you did!!! Good explanation, I actually didn't know this and thought you were going to talk about numbers of winds, magnet directions, coil wire thickness, etc., was much simpler and much cooler than I anticipated!!!

[@MrMjp58]

Brilliant. I'm no electrician, but still, I've never thought about this kind of thing at all in 51 years of guitar playing.

[@woodward_alan]

I appreciate your approach to explaining the differences and debunking myths.

[@rbjamn4jc]

Another great video. Loved the illustrations. Thanks for sharing.

[@vandemonia]

Brilliantly explained and ... love the magnetic field visualizations! Cheers

[@DanielOakfield]

What about the metal cover of the Tele PU? Doesn't affect the magnetic field as well?

[@jzarfos]

You popped up in my recommended for the first time. Excellent stuff, man!

[@timcastle165]

Great information, never would have guessed that and it does make sense! You mentioned “grounding”, what are your views on using either “conductive paint” or “copper tape” inside the body cavity and around the pickup cavity’s like a Faraday cage to reduce “noise” from single coil pickups?

[@justinrayguitars6024]

You know your taking all the voodoo magic out of guitars! Great video.

[@immanuelkantholz9033]

The "shape" of the magnetic field also defines, what part (or lets say how much) of the strings can induce current into the coil. (Which of course is among other reasons, why mini humbuckers sound different to regular humbuckers even if all the other specs were the same.)

[@fideldiazmusic]

This means we can mess a Tele pickup and cut the base plate in half and get a telestrat pickup? maybe bottom tele and top strap sound? than could be a good experiment ...

[@whoisdin]

first time viewer. this video alone has me subscribing. thanks, man.

[@notanotherguitarchannel]

Actually I've been wondering for a long time why teles seem to be the only guitars that have that particular tone. I guess they don't often put those pickup baseplates in other types of guitars. All this time I thought it was primarily the telecaster saddles that did it but then you get teles with regular saddles and they still sound like that.

[@JettoDz]

So, if I make a metal plate and mimic as fundamentally as possible the Tele setup in a regular Strat, will that led me to a more Tele like sound by it's own, right? One can have the exact same coil arrangement with the three-screws or the two-screws and have similar results, correct?

[@spacejamgoliath]

Really cool video. Had no clue about bass plates at all. They way you laid it out was nice too. It's apparent you have a true understanding of what you're talking about. New sub

[@spacejamgoliath]

@Project Scoop 601 🤦‍♂️ it was a joke but thanks

[@danhworth100]

Thanks! It’s tough to find reliable tech information. A lot of guitar enthusiasts are keen to believe any and all myths.

[@littlewing2357]

What I would like is a comparison of the Strat and Tele Neck pickups. They sound very different too. The neck is where I seem to play the most.

[@charleswallace5818]

Dylan, I am drawn to your straight forward attitude. I also enjoy the fact that you do not A-B testing. There are so many variables that affect those types of tests. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@Greenmantislives]

As always thank you for an explanation of something I wondered about but never saw explained anywhere else.

[@photocat37]

Just stumbled upon your channel and I’m hooked. I’ve been learning s lot. Thanks!

[@arcarioandsons]

I super dig the graphics you put into this video! Always love how much information are in your videos!

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

What's the difference between a strap hiccup, and a deli pickup?

[@jackpijjin4088]

One leads to a dropped guitar, the other to a delicious sandwich! :)

[@mal2ksc]

One is a wardrobe malfunction and the other is why Uber Eats was invented.

[@agtronic]

We want to hear a deli bridge pickle!!

[@danipombo]

You’re videos are the best. I’ve learned so much from your channel.

[@leftygeezer]

I learned something. Thanks for this lesson.

[@ChristosNikolis]

Sound Data Visualization?! Man, you rock! \m/ thanks for this!

[@cdeme123]

I really dug the overlay of the magnetic field you used to show magnetic fields. That's kind of how I imagined it. You did another video (probably more than one) on humbuckers. Do you have any with that same overlay for humbuckers. That'd really cool. Maybe a top down view since the magnets are horizontal with a different color for each coil to show the canceling effect. Love the videos. I think I've learned more about electric guitars in the past month than in the past 35 years.

[@robinestacio9462]

Can you convert a strat bridge pickup to tele bridge pickup by adding the base plate? Is it doable?

[@flintdavis2]

Thanks Dylan, I like your direct to the point commentary.

[@mr_stompbox]

Quick question: On a strat pickup would the magnetic field change if there was a metal baseplate underneath it as well? I've seen builders use it on the bridge pickup to give it more "oomph" but I'm not entirely convinced. Thank you for these great videos!

[@DylanTalksTone]

yes! it is a fun experiment. I should have mentioned that in the video. Check this one out amzn.to/2QwiDO6

[@ces69]

Jared Torres I added one to one of my guitars, was so impressed, I immediately ordered another base plate and the other! Takes the shrill edge off the treble and makes the bridge sound more powerful and usable!

[@markrodgers2976]

he clearly answered the question in this video. If a metal plate affects the magnetic field on any standard-design pickup, it affects them all.

[@robinestacio9462]

@@ces69 where do you order tele pick up base plate? Coz my question to dylan is would a tele bridge pick up's base plate installed on strat pick up produce tele tone? I'l order one if he answers yes.

[@noeticflatulence]

You described the pickups only. Another thing you could have described is how the bridge pickups are mounted. The main thing is the bridge on the Tele and all the metal on it. This metal surrounds the bridge pickup. I would think that the bridge on the Tele is also going to effect the magnetic field as does the base plate.

[@cdavidlake2]

Don't forget the different tonewoods!

[@ChrisHendrix117]

Would the tone change appreciably if that baseplate were a different material? Brass? Copper? Other ferrous metals? Just curious. As always informative and succinct! Well done!

[@DylanTalksTone]

they need to be ferrous so copper wouldn't do anything. In theory it can change with material, but would you hear it in a bar this weekend? probably not

[@ChrisHendrix117]

I’m sure some “boutique” pup maker will state their secret sauce is their baseplate material but the actual change is negligible if audible at all.

[@mal2ksc]

When it comes to magnets, ceramic sounds different from alnico II which sounds different from alnico V, etc. I'd have to imagine that if the magnetic characteristics of those affects the sound, then the magnetic characteristics of the baseplate will too. Being further from the strings will weaken the effect, but the sheer amount of material may compensate for that.

[@ChrisHendrix117]

Not refuting the fact that material change can make a difference, just suggesting it’s likely not the major component some may suggest. To often I’ve bought gear on a recommendation thinking because it was “boutique” or had a specific buzz word (I.e. Orange Drop Caps or a particular pot or “hand wired”) associated with it I’d be more pleased with it when reality was that gear was great! But perhaps not different enough from something which doesn’t have the associated buzz to justify the price. Case in point, does a $5000 guitar play better than a $500 guitar? Of course! But $4500 better? Same scenario with a $1000 guitar compared to the $5000 guitar? You’ll be hard pressed to convince me the law of diminishing returns doesn’t apply.

[@mal2ksc]

Oh the law of diminishing returns definitely applies, but if you pay $4500 extra for a pickup backplate, it better be made of pure adamantium. Even at a few hundred dollars, boutique pickups are questionably priced, but it's better to pay triple for the $50 items than the $500 items!

[@roarchristoffersen]

Good, simple accurate explanation, straight to the point. I've never thought about what the different steelplate design did, awesome! (y)

[@alexandrefaite8147]

I found it very informative. Excellent. I ve had tele and strats for decades and did not know.

[@runningwithscissors0911]

I always wondered. You are an excellent teacher Dylan ~ always clear, always direct. Also, the graphic was a great help and a nice touch! Thank you.

[@keithrowe7617]

Hey Dylan, I put a Tele pickup in my strat, but it doesn't really sound like a tele. Does the sound of the metal of the actual bridge around the tele a part of the sound, and therefore won't sound quite like a tele without the bridge around it?

[@markbuckley88]

I was thinking the same, the ashtray style bridge surrounds the pickup, so it must effect the magnetic field also right?

[@TonyHookedonVanlife]

A BIG part of the Tele sound is the huge metal baseplate screwed directly to the wood body. Of course, it's all "links in a chain", i.e., nut material, brass vs steel string saddles, etc.

[@michaelfrancis1]

Great explanation! Great graphic add for the magnetic fields.... Thanks!

[@cybrunel1016]

One year and one day to the day...great explanation. As always...you're the man. Thank you.

[@oris81]

Man, you always make very interesting video...

[@danandratis]

Very informative - thanks Dylan!

[@vinceparke5740]

The thumbs down people didn't like the brick wall.

[@moustachio334]

I love P90’s but a Tele bridge pickup will always be my first love.

[@Steven_SK]

Well what I thought was mostly wrong... nice clarification. Thank you!

[@jefffogle1288]

Thanks again Dylan. Very informative!

[@ronaldsweet3484]

Ha! Subscribed before your schpeil! Really great information! Learned a couple tidbits. Confirmed what this dummy should have known long ago. I bought a Epiphone Les Paul (20 years ago) and had the store drop Gibson Burstbuckers in it. It was never quite what I expected. I checked all the spec's, and finally said, "it is what it is". A couple days ago a thought popped into my head, 'I wonder what string height spec's are. So, I looked them up. Yep, the bridge was at 3/16 (supposed to be 1/16)...and what difference it makes!

[@wea69420]

I think it's worth mentioning that the material of the baseplate does make a difference in inductance and therefore the resulting sound. The same principle is exploited in humbuckers by swapping the baseplates (usually between nickel silver and brass) to shape the frequency response. Even though the original Tele baseplates were steel experimenting is certainly worth it for the tinkerers out there.

[@FlamesAt1000ft]

Once again very informative! Thanks for all your efforts!! Despite all the negativity,..you get the info out!!...👍🏾I for one enjoy your uploads so keep ‘em coming!!...✌🏾✨🎶🎸

[@erwinmatthewhoffmanndealar9753]

Love it!!! I hope you make more videos like this one👌

[@lalainaichane319]

Very interesting. Thank you for that video!

[@rogerarmstrong8893]

I have a Pawnshop model that is a Strat body with a tele neck it has duel tele pick up in the rear with a Texas Hunmbucker in the front an absolute awesome sound. Best of both worlds . Odd set up but if you don't like the feel of the tele body but love playing one it' works.

[@Iggytommy]

Great vid. what also makes a difference, indirectly, is that a strat bridge p/up traditionally doesn't have a tone pot in its circuit.

[@mikee6666]

I've honestly never understood that design decision. I always rewire for a master tone and volume.

[@hanskung3278]

Thank you Dylan, very helpful....question....Tele bridge pickups look different....can you explain that also?

[@clockwork914]

Great 👍🏻 job explaining & using visualization ❗️

[@elguarogozon1]

Wow man the graphic that you used on the video, really helps me to have a better understanding of this difference. Do you have another video like that showing the magnetic field on humbuckers?

[@fearlessfreddy1000]

Good elementary discussion. So many variables. What alloy is the plate? Mu metal? What are the gauss intensities of magnets? Mass of the magnets? That's just the start. Lucy you gotta lotta 'splain

[@Bigjoedo66]

Thanks for the info!! Is there a way to wind telecaster pickups so they are LESS Twangy?

[@wmk0100]

Since coil pickups use the metal strings to produce the mechanical part of the signal, how much does hollow vs solid body effect the way the string is vibrate over the pickups. Does it really change the tone?

[@ScottFreemire]

Yes. The string vibration is affected by the way the body and neck react and resonate with it. The lower mass of a hollow body changes its reaction to the vibration of the strings. Also, the air in a hollow cavity can resonate from external sounds. Therefore, hollow bodies will often resonate with certain sound frequencies coming from speakers. This vibration is transmitted to the strings, affecting their vibration, changing what the pickups "see" and therefore the tone they produce. The most common effect is problems with unwanted feedback from certain tones. I assume the overall tone is affected in this way as well, but I don't know how much.

[@wmk0100]

@@ScottFreemire That makes perfect sense, Thanks

[@EclecticEssentric]

Ah, the torus/hyperbaloid of magnetism! The upper part of the torus gets widened. Thanks!

[@reubensolly2237]

what would happen if a pickup had a tele baseplate AND a metal cover joined together? Would you have an even wider magnetic field and superior noise shielding?

[@leinadatidumarp]

Tex Mex tele bridge pickup does not have a base plate, yet it still sounds like a tele bridge pickup. I think the bobbin size and the winding have a significant influence to the sound.

[@SixString_J5]

The vibrations are also greatly affected by the fact that the pickup is mounted to the tele metal bridge vs the plastic pickguard

[@adolfoholguin8169]

John Hooten that wouldn't be really picked up by the pick ups though...

[@SixString_J5]

@@adolfoholguin8169 Vibration is what makes the pickups work though. Dylan is talking about how a metal plate on the bottom of the pickup affects the vibrations, why wouldn't the way the pickup is mounted have an effect?

[@saddle8bag]

Good video. You're pretty close in your explanation. The steel changes the permittivity in the path of the magnetic flux, thus as you say changing it's static path and intensity to some degree. When a plucked string cuts the lines of flux, it causes a dynamic change in the flux. The changing flux induces a proportional voltage change in the coil. When there is a path for current to flow i.e. into an amplifier, the coil becomes a tiny generator and the amplifier adds enough power to its signal to drive a speaker.

[@DylanTalksTone]

Yes you are correct.... but a simplified explanation is what we were going for here

[@giostroppa]

Great video! Thank you Dylan.

[@carpo719]

Love your channel Dylan... and for those people wanting answers to their questions, hey, remember that other people also answer each other, after all this is a community of musicians. Entitled people who want specific questions can support you on patreon if they want special treatment ;)

[@PhilORourke]

Brilliant,informative and very professional.Phil 2 strat owner uk.

[@DieselWeazel]

This is quality!! Subscribed!

[@joedavis8481]

Not to mention, the answer to alot of my questions are answered in previous videos 😯

[@edgardner7025]

Killing great show thank you for educating me about humbuckers I do have one question Squier classic vibe humbuckers wide-range are they the same as in the mim telecaster

[@macknickelson4866]

Yup... Explained the way I thought these different things worked. Thank you for confirming my suspicion. Lol

[@Jeff-m5x3j]

My question would be, given that a guitar had another ground to the strings, if you removed the ground from the plate, would that change the sound of the pickup? If it does, then you could wire a pot to gradually ground out the plate to being a new variety of sounds.

[@DylanTalksTone]

No it does not

[@HMJohnsonGuitar]

This is great, I've wondered about this through the years and I have asked a couple of guitar techs and no one ever given me this answer, but I have no doubt that this is right.

[@nilehipp2014]

Can a Strat Neck PU be modified by adding a Stainless plate to it, or do you have to replace the whole PU? Just asking.

[@rydock]

Fender says the '51 Nocaster bridge pickup has a tin-plated copper baseplate.

[@joseenriqueperezportugal3409]

Hi. And if I put that plate down my SD Hot Rail with split coil, could I recover some of the lost Twang because it was a mini humbucker? I have a Tele with a SD STHR-1b.

[@sealisa1398]

I watched....so I know about the bowl of jello. You’re a wellspring of information. Are you an electrical engineer? Love your videos.

[@JohnnyGuitar1]

SeaLisa definitely not an engineer.

[@thexplode7]

@@JohnnyGuitar1 nope he is an engineer. He has an e&e degree

[@JohnnyGuitar1]

@@thexplode7 Having studied electronics engineering for several years I can easily detect an electronics engineer, from a electronics technician. I can tell in several spots, and just as an example, at around 2:10m, magnetic fields do not “jiggle”, or “excite” as much as they are fixed and the current is induced. However, he may have studied EE, and may be a technician, or even a technologist, but not an electronics engineer, which is a much longer course of 4 years, and longer if you decide to specialize. I invite him to come here and disclose that himself. I still gave him a like, regardless.

[@thexplode7]

@@JohnnyGuitar1 hmm but I rmb him disclosing in one video I might be wrong.

[@ChillJamOfficial]

So with my Tele Deluxe, where the re-issue wide range humbucker at the bridge sounds like a humbucker version of a tele bridge pickup, and not like a super strat bridge humbucker, is that because they also use the base plate and ground the strings? (Asking as I don’t want to take the pick guard off and have a look myself). Or is it more to do with where the pickups are placed/ distance from the bridge?

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

What happens if you ad baseplates to neck and middle strat pickups? What effect?

[@maumex]

Hi! I couldn't a steel base plate around here, but I got a COPPER one...will that not work as well? Thanks!

[@gunkanjima3408]

So can a base plate be put on a strat bridge pickup? I'd imagine so but I never hear about anyone doing that mod

[@kencohagen4967]

Hey, how did you make the magnetic field visible? Ok, so the magnetic field is changed. So the shape of the magnetic field is spread out. Then what does the steel baseplate for the Strat pickup do, and how do they differ from the neck pickup on the Tele? Doe the tele's metal cover do anything to the tone, or is it the way it's wound that makes a difference? Also, my friend wants to put a P90 in the Tele's neck position. I like your idea of using a Filtertron pick up in the Middle position of a Tele, and I'd like to build it based on a Jazzmaster body and neck with the wide 70's headstock.