Vintage Telecaster Bridge Pickup 1

Vintage Telecaster Pickups from The Creamery

My Telecaster single coil pickups are 100% scatter wound (fed by hand) on hand cut vulcanised flatwork with individually set eyelets for the wiring. Each Tele bridge pickup is scatterwound at slowish speed with 42 AWG (46 SWG) or 43 AWG (46.5 SWG) plain enamel or vintage formvar copper wire before being wax-potted in a combination of beeswax and paraffin. Before potting, each Telecaster bridge pickup is engraved with its name, creation date making each one a true one off.

Choosing the right pickup can be a daunting process - Drop me an email with your requirements (tone/voice/output etc) and I'll either recommend a set or wind you a custom set of Telecaster pickups based on your own personal specifications.

*NOTE: I wind my pickups RW/RP as standard but you can request vintage non-RW/RP or alternative polarities - Just drop my an email. 

Telecaster Vintage Bridge Pickup (Nocaster)

My take on the vintage Telecaster (Nocaster) bridge pickups of the early '50s. Flat Alnico 3 polepieces pressed into handcut vulcanised flatwork. I scatterwind (handwind) the 42AWG (46SWG) thin copper wire to build the Telecaster pickup coil to around 6.7k. A traditional Telecaster bridge pickup sound; crisp and clear with a bright tone yet warm & round tone due to the Alnico 3 poles. Vintage cloth pushback hookup wire, wax potted with zinc coated steel baseplate and vintage style string coil protection make this my homage to the early Telecaster twang. A great Telecaster bridge pickup sound.

Magnets: Alnico 3

Poles: Flat

Polarity: South Up

Coil Wire: 42AWG Plain Enamel

Lead Wire: Vintage Cloth Pushback

Output: 6.7k

Baseplate: Zinc coated steel

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