Description
W.L. Van Zandt didn’t start out selling pickups — he started out fixing them, rewinding magnets for fellow Dallas/Ft. Worth pickers back in the 1960s while gigging on guitar and working as a machinist. Decades of hands-on experience with vintage Telecasters led him to this one, and by his own account, it’s the pickup he’s proudest of out of everything he’s wound.
The True Vintage Neck Pickup is built to recreate the warm, rounded voice of a golden-era Tele neck unit — soft-edged and mellow on its own, with just enough extra push under the hood to keep it from feeling thin. Paired with the bridge pickup in the middle position, it fills in the low end while the bridge brings the snap, giving you that classic scooped-yet-full in-between tone Tele players chase for years.
Highlights:
- Voiced to capture 1950s-into-early-60s Telecaster neck pickup character
- Mellow and rounded solo, complementary with a brighter bridge pickup in the middle position
- W.L. Van Zandt’s personal favorite among all the pickups he’s built
- A vintage-correct 50s Tele voice with a touch more output for modern playability
- Suited to country, blues, and rockabilly styles
If you’ve been hunting for that authentic pre-CBS neck tone without the fragility of an actual 60-year-old pickup, this is Van Zandt’s answer — built by a guy who’s been chasing that sound since before most of us were born.
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