![]() ![]() ![]() I'm going to start experimenting with this particular design.not to do a knock off, but rather to try to enhance how the Tiescos actually work. ![]() Then the bottom plate is steel, so it carries the magnetic field to the pole pieces which do not have any coil turns around them. They're single coils wrapped directly around some low grade ceramic, but the coils are very thin, so all turns are pretty close to the top of the pickup, making them quite efficient. Cheap as could be made, very little real thought into the whys and wherefores of pickup design, but brilliant. The Tiescos are one of the great accidents of guitar pickup history. He hangs out here from time to time I'd like to hear his take on the Teiscos. Going back to the gold-foils, I traded several of those to Mr. There's one particular Teisco hollowbody-I've forgotten the model number, but it's an offset design with the 4-and-2 headstock-that's actually pretty useful, although like most of these guitars some setup and possibly a refret will be required. I'd like to see photos of the OP's guitar. ![]() I've got one in the middle position of a Coodercaster-style Strat, and two in a Hammertone Octave XII that sound better, to my mind, than the stock Tele-neck-style units. Maybe a little crisper than the gold-foils-blackface versus tweed might be a useful comparison-but they sit well in a mix. I've also used the square-pole pickups in a couple of guitars they're under-rated, I think. (But then I tend to use the neck-position pickup in all of my guitars most of the time anyway.I'm not knocking the horseshoe!) I've got a gold-foil pickup like those shown above in the neck position of a Turner Model T that Rick Turner put together for me it's my #1 guitar for slide, and I find I gravitate more to the Teisco than to the Turner horseshoe pickup in the bridge position. Part of this, I suppose, is that they tend to be slightly microphonic, so you get nuances of right-hand attack that get smoothed out by "better" pickups. For me, the thing about the Teisco pickups is that they combine warmth with clarity in a way that works especially well for fingerstyle playing. ![]()
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