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I love that you did this DIY. I just had a guitar built by a guy who also winds pickups per your specs - I loved that I could have him dial in the tone exactly how I wanted.

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I needed a set of tele pickups. I like the sound of YouTube guitarist Danish Pete's telecaster. I heard it had a Fender 'nocaster' bridge pickup in the bridge, and a 'twisted tele' in the neck. Fender only sell those as sets of two of each, so I would need to buy 4 pickups for the two I needed. List price is £200 for each set, and try and sell the unwanted pickups on ebay...but other people are already onto this and there are lots of the 'wrong' pickups listed.

Making your own is the obvious solution!

I have 2 strat projects I needed pickups for too, so it will begin to pay off. I reckon I broke even in equipment (but not time) after one pickup.

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