Hey kawai2g4b,
I spose people like teles' to sound like teles' ? I like it to play (tele's fight you a bit mmmm) but I'm not interested in the twangy plucky sound, I want to play rock
, The one I put in the neck poss is a new strat bridge version (a good quarter(ish) bigger coils (hight) than the previous (now busted
much older) one), luckily the screws worked out to mount it into the body as it came with bolts to mount it from a pick guard and the new strat hot rails have the nuts molded into the pickup casing (but the screws were just the right size, small enough to go through and not bight on the nuts
happy about that !). Sounds very nice..., very smooth when your bending as no pole pieces, very responsive and SD say this is the highest output pickup they make, I've got it wired to a series/parallel switch, get some interesting (nice) tones combined with the bridge PU (an old hotted up SD tele PU). I need to run up some new patches for it though as my Anderson has Ultrasonics (best PU ever IMHO) which are very flat freq resp and my sounds are tweaked for them, so a bit of tweaking required to get the best from the more middy SDs'.
The dual blades work very well, I also wonder why you don't see them often, then again, I've never seen a fully sunken floyed on a tele before. Initially I put a Gotoh locking trem on it, so routed the back etc (it started life as a fixed bridge tele) but returning flat to the body, not floating (great trem BTW, loved it). After I got the Anderson with fully floating floyed (and one of the Gotoh fine tuner screws broke) I copied the Anderson routing and installed the shaller floyed. I also re-fretted it with bigger frets, seems it's time for it to get played a bit more...