Dummy coil

[Heft]

Hey,
I wan't to put a dummy coil in a telecaster (essential making it an esquire.) If I was to pull the poles out of a single coil pick up do I need to worry about the quality of the pickup? Can I just get the cheapest pickup off amazon for the dummy coil?
Heft!

 

[supertruper1988]

On vintage style construction with fibber bobbins you can break the inner windings of the coil so I would look for something like an old Mexico standard pickup with the steel poles and ceramic magnets glued to the back. Cheap Squier pickups are that way too. Then you can just pop the magnets off and push out the poles.

I mention these specifically because they have plastic bobbins that typically have the magnets in a tube.