GFS Pickups 50's Repro Bridge for Tele

single coil, 7.2k ohms, made like vintage broadcaster with seemingly no potting. alnico 5.

SX stl50 with a true tone technologies custom "keith richards style" PAF in the neck.(Unbelievably authentic Stone's riffs, but that's another review)

The output is just right for vintage twangin'. I would say the sites claim of 7.2k ohms is just about on the money. It pairs well with vintage output humbuckers and all tele neck pickups. I use a fender usa princeton 112 with a eminence legend speaker. I plug straight in the amp. Not as much bass as the site claims but sounds more like a regular tele bridge pickup than a broadcaster. Very crisp, clear, and rich sounding pickup with virtually no noise. Sounds good on all treble settings and gives a very zeppelin like distortion. I was looking for a short term, decent quality pickup until I could afford a handwound pickup. This GFS almost sounds handwound. It has great dynamics and a very rich musical tone. I'm probably just going to keep this one. For classic rock, rockabilly, or country this is a great pickup. The fact that it's cheap ($30) is just another plus.

I've only tried a few tele bridge pickups, but this is the best. I've played guitar for 12 years and I've been swapping pickups for the last 3 years. I've only recently gotten into hand wound, mainly getting custom pickups from vintage vibe and true tone technologies. I'm shocked that I like this pickup so much and that I refuse to replace it with a hand wound. I guess I just figured that no pickup could sound that much better than this thing. Give it a try, its a boutique quality pickup for 30 bucks. GFS has a few great sounding pickups. However, tone is subjective.