Lindy Fralin Split Steel Pole for Tele is......rad!

[aarontunes]

Check this out. Compared to the Fralin single coil the Split Steel Pole has less highs and more ooomph.

I used a 250k pot in mine since that's what the Fralin site recommends. A 500k pot would likely bring some of that high end back.

 

[Rick]

These kinds of demos are great! I recently did a comparison between a Railhammer nuevo 90 and a seymour duncan 90, and found the railhammer was the same as the p90 clean and when distorted, but in between the railhammer sounded like a humbucker while the p90 had more crunchiness. It's not a bad sound, just different.

I'll head over to youtube tonight and leave an anecdote, probably be about my first and best combo that i've owned since I was 18, or a guitar that I bought with cigarette money.

 

[Spud]

Check this out. Compared to the Fralin single coil the Split Steel Pole has less highs and more ooomph.

I used a 250k pot in mine since that's what the Fralin site recommends. A 500k pot would likely bring some of that high end back.

Again, with gain or without and silent Wilde/ Bill Lawrence

L48 Tele Lead

The L48TL is the Tele bridge iteration of the L45, Bill's twin blade masterpiece, which adapts his original twin blade for his last and proudest achievement in noisefree design. The pickup uses stainless steel blades to guide a tightly focused but uniform magnetic window in a perfectly...

www.wildepickups.com

 

[Spud]

The L-280TN is for players that love the beautiful rich sound of a traditional single coil pickup without the tormenting 60 cycle hum -- but that's not all. What seems to be a tame, sweet pussycat at lower volume levels turns into a wilde beast when you turn up your amp

and for the neck,

 

[aarontunes]

Again, with gain or without and silent Wilde/ Bill Lawrence

L48 Tele Lead

The L48TL is the Tele bridge iteration of the L45, Bill's twin blade masterpiece, which adapts his original twin blade for his last and proudest achievement in noisefree design. The pickup uses stainless steel blades to guide a tightly focused but uniform magnetic window in a perfectly...

www.wildepickups.com

I don't doubt it's a great pickup that works for many, but behold the power of marketing: I just cannot get excited about Bill Lawrence products. I've tried. I've researched. There is just something about the brand identity that I cannot get past. I think it stems from all the drama/confusion/bad blood I've seen associated with those products in years past.

Another option that gets suggested to me all the time is the Illitch system, and I feel exactly the same way about that. The Illitch website is just too dated-looking, replete with poorly written verbiage, and missing the fundamental/simple explanations and information that make it easy for customers to act. I just cannot get into it.

 

[Spud]

I don't doubt it's a great pickup that works for many, but behold the power of marketing: I just cannot get excited about Bill Lawrence products. I've tried. I've researched. There is just something about the brand identity that I cannot get past. I think it stems from all the drama/confusion/bad blood I've seen associated with those products in years past.

Another option that gets suggested to me all the time is the Illitch system, and I feel exactly the same way about that. The Illitch website is just too dated-looking, replete with poorly written verbiage, massive gaps in information, and very little explanation. I just cannot get into it.

The ones I love are hand made by Becky and Shannon his wife and daughter and they are the real deal. I get what you are saying, but you are missing out on not trying the 48T they sound fantastic with gain and clean and despite the rail look, sound nothing like say a Duncan "hot rails".

 

[hamburder]

I got one for a bridge pickup. Still waiting on the parts from Warmoth, but I am pumped to get it. Gonna use it in combo with the Fralin PAF humbucker at the neck.

I have 500k pots for both pickups.

 

[Spud]

In any case, I still love you even if you aren't up for their pickups. "If you know you only have to ask, if you have to ask, you'll never know"

 

[hamburder]

Check this out. Compared to the Fralin single coil the Split Steel Pole has less highs and more ooomph.

Is this the 42 or 43?

 

[aarontunes]

Is this the 42 or 43?

Neither. This is the Split Steel Pole.

 

[Spud]

I don't doubt it's a great pickup that works for many, but behold the power of marketing: I just cannot get excited about Bill Lawrence products. I've tried. I've researched. There is just something about the brand identity that I cannot get past. I think it stems from all the drama/confusion/bad blood I've seen associated with those products in years past.

Another option that gets suggested to me all the time is the Illitch system, and I feel exactly the same way about that. The Illitch website is just too dated-looking, replete with poorly written verbiage, and missing the fundamental/simple explanations and information that make it easy for customers to act. I just cannot get into it.

Not to hijack, but conventional wisdom says good marketing=good tone................DO NOT, under any circumstances, use your ears........ever!!

 

[Hodgo]

Appreciate the comparison!

I am surprised to hear a marketing guy avoiding a brand because of insufficient marketing… Wilde makes a great product at a great price. Bill Lawrence’s name stands right alongside Seth Lover and Leo Fender in pushing the limits of the passive pickup.

Of course, Lawrence USA is a fraud. And Illitch needs to drop their prices by about 50%, otherwise I’d rather just put a dummy coil under the pickguard and move on with my life.

Novak used to make a split coil just like you described except with Alnico rods, it was called the TEL-HC. EAD had one coil, GBE had the other, RWRP from each other. Sadly it seems they’ve pulled that from their line, would’ve made a great comparison.

 

[ghostrider]

“I just want the traditional look.” - Aaron while holding a StratTele Hybrid



It sounded surprisingly good. I feel like these kinds of things typically are good at canceling hum but don’t sound good. I was pleasantly surprised.