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This is definitely a dumb question, but I can’t seem to find a clear answer.

Tele bridge pickups are different from a standard single coil, right? I can’t just put any old single coil in a standard Tele bridge pickup hole?

If there is a way to do this, does it require any special tomfoolery?

The Tele bridge pickup is larger so a strat pickup will fit the bridge hole, but there’s not really a good way to mount it or an adapter product readily available.

A forum thread I found on the subject, has some ideas:

http://www.tdpri.com/threads/install-s ... ge.418094/

A single coil adapter for humbucker routs would probably cover most routs except for the bigger ones with that thing at the bottom (which can be covered by the bridge), but I'm not sure tele routs are wide enough for the strat pickup's ears.

Also, the mounts on a Tele bridge pickup are in a different place to most single coils:

Special tomfoolery confirmed.

Tele bobbins are bigger than Strat ones, but they don't have a cover so the resulting hole in the plate isn't wayyy off or anything. Its mounting that would be the main issue.
Probably the best way to do it would be to screw it into the bottom of the pickup cavity with long screws and foam like offset or fender bass pickups and have it peek through the hole in the plate (same method as vintage-style Tele neck pickups without height adjust screws on the pickguard, actually)... you'd probably have to widen the route at the sides though, and it will probably show a little on either side of the bridge plate?

And be a total bastard when you want to adjust the height as you'd have to practically unstring the whole guitar to get under the bridge plate.

paul_ wrote:Special tomfoolery confirmed.

There was a particular Strat-sized DiMarzio I was intrigued by, but if there's ~special tomfoolery~ then I think I'll stick with a standard Tele bridge-sized pickup for this project. Might stick the DiMarzio in my Les Paul SL at some point instead, I'm pretty certain those are regular Strat-sized single coils.

Thanks for the assistance, all!

Which DiMarzio are you interested in?

Freddy V-C wrote:

paul_ wrote:Special tomfoolery confirmed.

There was a particular Strat-sized DiMarzio I was intrigued by, but if there's ~special tomfoolery~ then I think I'll stick with a standard Tele bridge-sized pickup for this project. Might stick the DiMarzio in my Les Paul SL at some point instead, I'm pretty certain those are regular Strat-sized single coils.

Thanks for the assistance, all!

Gibson style and Fender style guitars have different string spacings, unless the pickup is rail the polepieces won't match the strings when when putting let's say a strat pickup into a Gibson and vice versa

Yeah, but that doesn't really matter the way pickup manufacturers pretend it does.

Kurtz used Gibson spaced pickups in Fender guitars and we all know how that ended.

Yeah, it ended when they put the tune-o-matic on.

^Was so tempted to post the infamous final photo

paul_ wrote:Yeah, but that doesn't really matter the way pickup manufacturers pretend it does.

Yeah, but then the innate flaws which absolutely every pickup has will drive you crazy at night robbing you off your sleep. "Do I not have that juicy bass and treble response because the low and high E strings don't exactly match the pole pieces?" I'm almost sure that's the reason why Kurtz gone

Teh Kurdtz is gone because he F-spaced his ears.

G to F-spacng conversion shotgun is the latest product from Stewmac? Will there be a video lesson on their website on how to use it?

Dan Erlewine posted a How to on live leak.

Talking with a shotgun barrel in your mouth is just plain bad manners

Noirie. wrote:Dan Erlewine posted a How to on live leak.

Did you Dan Erlewine was in a band with Iggy Pop?