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Fender Texas Special Telecaster Single-Coil Pickup Set

Staggered Alnico 5 magnets. Enamel-coated magnet wire.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
           9 out of 10
Features:
           9 out of 10
Quality:
           9 out of 10
Value:
           9 out of 10
I Want It:
           8 out of 10
Sound:
           9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
           8 out of 10
Support:
           8 out of 10
 
 

"The best Telecaster pickup Period."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 6/7/2004
Style of Music: Mostly Rock, but anything that I feel, or challanges me.
Location: Munising, MI USA

 

 
Feature:
The overwound pickups help me achive the over the top distortion I crave along with the best clean sounds known to mankind, I have used these pickups to make a modern music masterpiece

Quality:
The product was as good as gold

Value:
Was worth every penny of the $99.95

Sound:
I put these pickups in my Squire Telecaster which was my favorite playing guitar. The Texas Specials made my guitar like a new guitar. Now the lead guitar player in my band keeps bothering me to sell him the guitar. The sounds I can acheive with the clean, and distortion are spectacular. I run my Telecaster live through a Fender M80 Chorus Combo amp. For my distortion I run a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster, and a Boss Distortion Pedal. I always had distortion feedback problems with the Telecaster before with the old pickups, but I loved the sound of the clean. The new pickups made my guitar's cleans sound like a ringing bell tone. I can acheive any clean sound from country, and 60's pop twangy brightness on the bridge pickup, to almost a Les Paul clean on the neck pickup. I use 11 boomers for more meaty sound for my strings. Also I would suggest the Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster for anyone using a Telecaster that wants better distortion. I can acheive Metallica, Slayer type distortion with it. I have tried for about 5 years to find a way to turn my cheaper Telecaster into a mean machine, and Through the two Upgrades I have discussed here I have achived all I have wished for and more

Support:
Never Had to.

Overall:
I will never replace the product ever!

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"Great Sound"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Submitted: 12/23/2005

 

 
Feature:
can't complain really.

Quality:
great quality pickups, can't really complain about em ;)

Value:
yup, easy 10 here. Makes your telecaster sing

Sound:
Made my telecaster that much better, reduces the annoying tele feedback when I play live with it (tho I usually use my paul and SG). All in all a good investment to any telecaster owner :P

Overall:
Awesome pickups, just great. I would recommend them to any telecaster owner.

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"Uncontrolably loud!"

Overall:
          5 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          5 out of 10
Value:
          5 out of 10
I Want It:
          3 out of 10
Sound:
          5 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          5 out of 10
Support:
          5 out of 10
Submitted: 3/9/2009

 

 
Feature:
Does give te option for the 4 way tele switch.

Quality:
The coil wires coming from the solderd taps are very exposed, not counter sunk, therefore I broke one but didn't seem to effect the sound. And the FB was there b4.

Sound:
Loud w/ unwanted feedback on the clean channel (let alone gain...forget about it!) in my MIM 2 piece ash telecaster. It's like sticking a condenser mic in the body, picks up every little tap. Has a 10k dc resistant...really high output. May not work w/ all tele/amp setups.

Ease of Use:
It's pup.

Support:
Not needed.

Overall:
Loud w/ unwanted feedback on the clean channel (let alone gain...forget about it!) in my MIM 2 piece ash telecaster. It's like sticking a condenser mic in the body, picks up every little tap. Has a 10k dc resistant...really high output. May not work w/ all tele/amp setups.

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