Description
Seymour Duncan’s Antiquity Tele Lead picks up where the earliest flat-pole Telecaster bridge pickups left off. Once Fender noticed the D and G strings were getting lost in the mix, they raised those two pole pieces above the flatwork — and that small tweak is exactly what this pickup recreates. The result is a bridge pickup with better string-to-string balance and a touch more output than the original flat-pole design, without losing any of that twangy, cutting Tele character.
This is the lead (bridge) position pickup, calibrated and wound with a top-coming winding direction and south magnet polarity. It’s built to Antiquity spec for players chasing genuine mid-’50s tone rather than a modern, scooped-out version of it — think snap, bite, and just enough grit to feel broken-in.
- Top pickup length: 2.870" / width: .770"
- Bottom pickup length: 2.885" / width: 1.510"
- Total pickup height: .740" / magnet height: .688"
- Winding direction: top coming
- Magnet polarity: south
- Magnet pattern: staggered & raised above flatwork
- Height adjustment: 6/32 round head, Phillips
- Calibrated: yes
- No pickup cover
- DC resistance: 6.1K ohms
- Inductance: 2.0 henries
- Q: 2.0
Drop it into the bridge slot of your Telecaster and let it do what the ’55 originals did best: cut through a mix with honest, unfiltered twang.
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