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The 1 guitar that doesn't has a Firebird and it works really well with 250k pots.
My other 3 have PAF type humbuckers and balance well with the bridge SC but I am running hotter broadcaster/esquire type pickups.
Bridge pickup is a Broadcaster and I am thinking of hotting it up a little. Maybe an esquire pup...
Small, Gibson-type humbuckers work well, especially if the bridge position single coil is on the hot side. A genuine Wide Range humbucker is very nice. Another workable option is the Filter'Tron.
Neck pickup is a Seymour Duncan ‘59 which is an old fashioned low-to-middling output PAF-a-like. When I originally got the guitar I found the difference in output between the neck and bridge pickups a little hard to work with given the standard telecaster wiring/control layout but something from the pokier end of Ash’s Oil City range (I’m not even sure what it is, my son ordered it up as birthday present on the basis of a conversation with Ash and my stated issues and I believe he actually added a few extra turns of something to one of his standard offerings - this is what I love about bespoke builders!) fixed that.
The end result is a guitar I reach for more often than things which cost 2-3 times as much, because it’s just so damned versatile and easy to dial in a sound for pretty much any genre on pretty much any rig...
My Road Worn Player Tele has the same SD 59 in the neck. I swapped out the bridge for a Mojo unit which suits it better.
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Crank yo’ amp into overdrive saturation. The valve clipping kinda evens things out.
The taller than standard “Twisted” Tele type pickup does a pretty convincing impersonation of this sound and avoids the need for woodwork. The downside is that it detracts slightly from the traditional both pickups sound. It would be interesting to try one of them in a Jerry Donahue style circuit with the half-out-of-phase option.