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9/8/1999 1:42 PM
Gus	tele noiseless my tele noiseless pickup came in. FWIW fender does not state what value pot 250k,500k,1meg to use. The strat set comes with 1 meg pots. I will post my findings I have a Z3SH G&L and some teles to compare the pickups. IMO the pickups look cheap the plastic bottem plates are melted by the eyelets and the plastic top of the bridge looks like a cheap pickup.

10/4/1999 5:31 PM

I installed the tele noiseless set yesterday the set I recieved hums like crazy and has a high output I think they wire the secound coil in the set I have backwards. I am going to call fender. any thoughts????????????.

FWIW I wired the pickups to the jack to the amp still hummed. tried other guitars with humbuckers to the same amp cord and wall outlet did not hum. try 52 reissue pickups hummed less than noiseless????

10/5/1999 12:50 AM
Ed Rembold	Dear Gus, When you get all done fooling around with every possible pickup combo- Do yourself a favor- go to billlawrence.com and check out Bill Lawrence's pickups. I've been using them since 5/98, pleased every customer from the youngest (14) to the oldest (58). Myself included (40) Respectfully, Ed Rembold

10/5/1999 2:30 PM
Gus	thanks Ed a good friend of mine likes the tele lead pickup alot as well. I like teles alot the 52ri's from fender are my favs but they hum. is the BL tele pickup that stew mac sells the good one????

10/5/1999 11:48 PM
Ed Rembold	Whoa Gus! Those pickups in the Stew-Mac catalog are Not made by Bill Lawrence, they are inferior copies, "Lawrence design" Bill Lawrence, himself and the kind folks at Stew-Mac will both acknowledge this. accept No substitutes. Ed Rembold

10/6/1999 6:23 PM

Ed:

Thanks for that info about the "BL" pickups sold by StewMac. I wasn't aware of that important point. What's the story with Bill Lawrence? Does he still make pickups? He sold off his guitar company, but did he keep the pickup side of the business? Who sells the real Lawrence pickups?

This is a little off the subject (my apologies), but StewMac is a great source for many things we need to feed our guitar hobby or repair business. It's great that there is such a source. But they seem to miss the boat on obvious things here & there. Did you see their latest catalog? They feature new "Golden Age" pickups. There's alnico 5 vintage styles, ok, but they also feature a ceramic type. It's exactly the same one as in the mexican strats, with the parallel magnet bars glued on the bobbin base. Most people yank these out and give them away. But if you desire new ones to put in your axe, you can get them for $29.95 each!

Doc

10/7/1999 2:30 AM
Ed Rembold	Doc, To the best of my knowledge Bill's still making guitars, certainly not mass produced like Fender and Gibson. The only way I know to buy the pickups is to order direct. check out the web site http://www.billlawrence.com the phone numbers are at the site, you'll be talking to either Bill or Becky, you won't be sorry, Ed Rembold

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