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I like P90s, my “offset” Tele has a pair. They aren’t that common though. That new Noventa Tele has a single P90 in the bridge position, like a Les Paul Junior kind of vibe.
would a P90 be preferable to a humbucker at the neck?
Totally a matter of taste. P90s are more dynamic than humbuckers but fatter and hotter (louder) than single coils. Because of the high output and non-humbucking design they sometimes have a tendency to be a bit noisy.
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I can see in my eBay watch list, there's a mixture of the two types, three and six between the guitars. It appears the ones with the humbucker are more likely to have six.
It gets a bit complicated… within the three-saddle niche you have plain (straight) brass saddles, straight steel saddles (straight saddles often have some kind of slot or threaded surface to stop the string from moving), compensated ones where the saddles are threaded at an angle to stagger the strings, compensated ones with peaks or grooves shaped into the saddle where one peak is further forward, and the "hot rod" ones where you have raised peaks but you can actually move one side to fully adjust the intonation.
Then you have the six-saddle variants.
The more modern designs tend to be more convenient but you usually find guitarists complaining they don't sound right, because guitarists.
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I definitely prefer the Custom to the Deluxe, but also they’re not really the sort of humbuckers that you’re going to overdrive too hard, kept a little clean I think it’s a different sound to a Gibson humbucker type of thing.
For a second I was half contemplating getting something like that to put the cunife pickups in but then I saw they’re like £400 for a pair.
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The Telecaster was the first mass produced solid body electric and Leo Fender was really good at finding simple engineering solutions that were kind of crude but worked really well and were tough as nails.
The Tele bridge design has a stamped plate screwed to the body with holes for the strings to come through from the rear of the body. They go over brass bar saddles that are elevated from the bridge plate by grub screws and adjusted fore and aft by a longer sprung screw through the raised lip of the rear of the bridge plate.
All this was intended to be hidden under a metal cover that looked like an ashtray when it was removed (you can see where it would have been in that pic). Some models still come with the ashtray...
The three straight saddles don’t allow for particularly good intonation (you have to “split the difference” between pairs of strings) but that’s kind of the traditional Tele vibe. Nowadays you can get compensated three saddle designs or six bent steel saddles that are more like a hardtail Strat bridge.
@Pifko lol
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What if you already have one of those? 🤔
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Oof, why did I start browsing eBay...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Limited-Edition-USA-Fender-Telecaster-Silverburst-/133646686317
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There’s a comment further down from a guy who owns one saying the saddles look original to him (that style of six small saddles is unusual). Looks like a pretty nice guitar to me, especially at that price.
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I’ll PM you.
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For anyone with a FOIS - I would consider selling my brushed Forstner flat link as I’m really happy with the watch on leather.
Check the Ianos Avyssos if you like microbrand divers/tool watches.
https://ianoswatches.com/the-ianos-avyssos
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-ianos-avyssos