New (cheap) pickups in my bitsa telecaster

[wingnutkj]

After years of putting up with a ropey action, muddy humbucker, warped bridge pickup top and unstable tuning due to a badly cut nut, I finally got round to giving my bitsa telecaster a facelift. Shimmed the neck, sorted out the nut, and put new pickups in. The pups are a Tonerider Hot Classic at the bridge, and an Artec P1 Filtertron-style humbucker at the neck. Sounds much better now! The Filtertron is much clearer than the old pickup, and balances much better with the bridge pickup when they're both on. The guitar is a Warmoth body - wild maple top on poplar, with Fender Mexico Telecaster neck with 2 roller string retainers. I put it together about 12 years ago.

For such cheap pickups, I'm well impressed by the quality.