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Cheap pickups in the UK?

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I have a budget for a refit to a telecaster. I want to put a P-90 or Humbucker sized p-90 for the neck pos and a tele pickup for the bridge that is quite hot.

Any ideas for under £55?
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one

http://store.guitarfetish.com/me90tralp90p.html

two

http://store.guitarfetish.com/alfa10kovteb.html

or something similar: http://store.guitarfetish.com/singlecoil.html

with shipping it comes out at 54 quid.
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P90s at bottom of teh page
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I know GFS have lots of fans on here, but they're really nothing spectacular.

http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/
These pickups are hand-wound, and sound great. I've a couple in my thinline tele, and the guy rewound a Musima pickup for me.

I've really got to apologise for their website though. A few months ago it looked fine, but now we're back to 1998 with blue neon iframes hell. Same content, just looking half as professional.
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Rhysyrhys wrote:I have a budget for a refit to a telecaster. I want to put a P-90 or Humbucker sized p-90 for the neck pos and a tele pickup for the bridge that is quite hot.

Any ideas for under £55?
Fran said wwwAxesrus.com are good for the money. Lots on Ebay but not attached to any known brand.

EDIT: +1 on Timhulio - I got some from Alan at catswhisker and the quality is of the build is great.
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The one i got from axerus was an Artec Mini Hum. Really good qaulity and tone for sub £20.
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I've got a Mean 90 in the neck of my American Series Tele. Main problem is that it doesn't pair up particularly well with the stock bridge pickup.
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timhulio wrote:I know GFS have lots of fans on here, but they're really nothing spectacular.

http://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/
These pickups are hand-wound, and sound great. I've a couple in my thinline tele, and the guy rewound a Musima pickup for me.

I've really got to apologise for their website though. A few months ago it looked fine, but now we're back to 1998 with blue neon iframes hell. Same content, just looking half as professional.

unless the dirt from some old ass ladies underpayed fingers effects my tone i don't give a shit if they are hand wound.

in fact winding pickups by hand sounds like punishment to me, not a job.
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Hand wound does not mean literally hand wound...

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