http://i.imgur.com/gHZleYp.jpgTo cut a long story short (although you can review videos #1 and #2 in the playlist below if you care enough to sit through a few minutes of discussion), I got rid of my MIJ Strat because it ended up being the worst of two worlds: neither vintage nor superstrat. I went for a Tele because despite an earlier bad experience with telecasters, I found myself using the neck and bridge the most when I did use the strat - and someone offered a Part Ex I could hardly turn down.
It came very soiled, with loose controls and
a really nasty looking cream pearloid pickguard - so I went about refitting it with a bakelite guard, CTS 250k pots, a sprague 0.047f capacitor and (because i am meant to be playing this!) a treble bleed circuit.
For sounds, I went with
@TheGuitarWeasel Oil City pickups. After a really nice conversation with Ash we settled on a Honkey Tonk Angel in the neck and a super-early Tele pickup he winds called a "49'er". There's a demo in the second half of the below video (at 2 minutes)
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Hells yeah - if you look at video 2/3 of the series I go over it but essentially an early Broadcaster pickup is much more P90 in terms of tonal characteristic than slightly later (but still achingly vintage) late 50's and early 60's pickups.