Tele Thinline

[mcjt]

with so many single coil guitars, and giving up my WRHB's, would it be heresy to put this into the Tele on the neck position?

[idiotbear]

Noooo. I know there are trendier pickup brands in the world, but I swear by all three of the SD sets I have.

[djetz]

with so many single coil guitars, and giving up my WRHB's, would it be heresy to put this into the Tele on the neck position?

It wouldn't be my choice - Seymours are good pups, but overpriced.

However, I'm sure it would sound great in the neck position of a Tele Thinline, and I think it'd work really well in combination with a regular Tele bridge pup. And it would definitely look cool. You'd need to cut the guard to measure, though.

[GUITARmole]

How about a wide range humbucker in the neck position, and a bigsby?  That would be the shizzle.

That's exactly what I'm going to do with the "sparklecaster" when I replace the body with a Thinline:

[Mighty Tom]

My God...it's full of stars.

[aen]

Does anyone have an opinion on Rhythm pickup screwed into body vs. pickguard?

It'll pickup sounds when it's screwwed into the body that it otherwise wouldn't. i had a tele for a while that would pickup the strap creaking, if you did it right. I kind of like the screwwed in version as oppsed to the "resting above" version.

[RumorsOFsurF]

How about a wide range humbucker in the neck position, and a bigsby?  That would be the shizzle.

That's exactly what I'm going to do with the "sparklecaster" when I replace the body with a Thinline:

That's one sweet Tele...

Is it one you built, Scot?

[GUITARmole]

Is it one you built, Scot?

Yeah.  You can't see the subtle lumpiness of the finish in the pics though 

Lesson learned..."don't use nitro over big-assed sparkle flakes".  I should have used poly to clearcoat it...I went through coat after coat of nitro (until I got sick of painting and finally gave up) and the finish is still slightly lumpy.  Still, it's shiny and looks great even close up.  You really have to be within a foot of the guitar and/or touch the finish before you realize it isn't glass smooth.

The body is a little bit heavier than I like too so I'm probably going to replace it with a Thinline style body with a thin nitro finish (maybe in Gretsch transparent orange) and use all of the existing parts (neck, original WR humbucker, bridge, Bigsby, etc).  That pic of the Seymour Duncan mini-bucker got me thinking though...I have an old minibucker I scored off of fleabay that I 'think' might have CuNiFe polepieces like the Fener WR (or at least they're rumoured to) that would probably fit better if I was to go with a Thinline pickguard on it.  It's a cool minibucker in that it looks like a miniature version of the WR with the polepieces offset in exactly the same way.

I just saw Tab Benoit a few weeks ago...it was great inspiration for building a Thinline with WRs!!