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Tele neck pick-ups tend to sound more focused and 'narrower' that Strats.
The physical characteristics of the guitars (single cut v double cut, tremolo bridge v hard tail, alder v ash, etc) also make a massive difference.
Maybe it was this (monstrosity? I really couldn't say )
An electric guitar is still 'acoustic' to some extent (a Les Paul and a Strat sound MASSIVELY different from each other when played unplugged). The pick-ups will further 'colour' the acoustic qualities of the guitar, but the same pick-up swapped from one guitar to another will sound very different.
By contrast, the Strat bridge pickup pretty much has to be shoehorned into its Tupperware prison and conform to height restrictions. Mostly you have to overwind over a certain point by swapping to a finer gauge of wire ... and that can mess with the essential Strat-ness of the sound. Good hot strat pickups can be made ... but they are much harder ... and in the end, please fewer guitarists (in my experience) than hot Tele ones.
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Lol ... you must have very ... er ... specific tastes if you can't find a Tele bridge pickup you like They range from blade pole piece Charlie Christian jobbies ... the BS from Lollar to super high output 17k Duncan Quarter Pounder ... with magnets from alnico 2 all the way up to ceramic. There's sparkly clean ones, great growling, mid happy powerhouse ones ... and tapped ones that give you can get multiple different sounds out of.
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