NICE tele
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ivan H
Ambassador of Tubes & Grooves
I was wondering kinda the same.
No matter how many vintage guitars one had, an original Broadcaster, sub 100 SN is not something you'd be getting rid of, you wouldn't think. Cheers
gball
Ambassador of Boogie
I much prefer it for sale at Norman's. At least there it might stand a chance of actually getting bought and played instead of having wing sauce splashed on it.
gball
Ambassador of Boogie
Wow... what a guitar...
I wonder how much? I gots to know! Can't find it's listing at Norman's website.
That place has hundreds of guitars that they don't put on the website - just give a call and talk to Mark, he's super cool. I bought my last guitar from him.
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
Thanks, and yeah, Mark does appear to be generally a good guy. Also, he has some pretty cool chops and dishes out some good info and history when he does those demos for Normans. As far as calling: I'd be too embarrassed to ask if I wasn't a serious buyer...
ivan H
Ambassador of Tubes & Grooves
Yes, it did. It had slightly larger diameter pole pieces than Tele pickups, A3 at first, A5 later & wound with 10,000 turns of plain enamel 43 AWG wire, so in the vicinity of 9.6k ohms to 10k ohms DC resistance. Base plate was thicker than what is used now, nickel plated steel at first, copper plated on later ones. I had an A3 wound up for my 5 string open G Tele, very nice pickup. Thicker sounding with better mids & not as much "twang" compared to a Tele bridge pickup. I've got the flatwork with larger diameter A5 poles (flush top) to be wound someday but haven't felt the need. Cheers
Edit; they were wound "top right, top going", so anti clockwise. I needed the poles to be "south up" on mine so it would be in phase with the Burstbucker 2 neck pickup, though I think the originals were "north up". Cheers
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ninjaking67
Ambassador of Good Will
Cool information ivan H!
ivan H
Ambassador of Tubes & Grooves
A little more info; The Broadcaster bridge pickup was modelled on the Fender Champion lap steel pickup. As this was already in production & sounded like Leo wanted, they simply used the same spec for the new guitar pickup. This is why people like Keith Richards (who actually owns Broadcasters) will transplant Champion pickups into their Telecasters. Its not a direct fit though, see the Champion pickup
so requires some modifacafions to the pickup base or route of the guitar. Note Keith's "Micawber" only has two screws mounting the bridge pickup to the bridge plate.
Cheers
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