P-90 options for Tele bridge rout?

[exalted]

If I buy a telecaster off the showcase that's already drilled for the tele bridge rout, are there any bridges that would accommodate a p-90?

 

[Mor Paul]

None I know of.

 

[rockskate4x]

Nope. Look at glendale bridges though. The have a bridge for tele that's just the half that doesn't hold the pickup, so you can use a unordinary pickup on a guitar with a tele bridge rout.

 

[tfarny]

Have them route the bridge for HB, use the tele HB bridge. EVERYBODY makes a HB-sized P90 type from Lollar down to GFS.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

The recent discussion/opinion/observation that a full sized humbucker or single coil sized hum looks unnatural in a Strat, the Tele humbucking bridge is an unholy union, IMO.  I much prefer the hardtail Strat bridge and mounting ring to that thing.

But, Warmoth is the place for "Island of Dr. Moreau" builds.

 

[exalted]

I agree, but you can't use a strat hardtail on a body drilled for a tele bridge, can you?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Good point.  My brain gets in the way of me thinking sometimes.  Go with the Glendale half-tele.  I'm not for sure, but I don't know if the Hum-tele brige is the same route as the vintage Tele brige route.

 

[rockskate4x]

http://www.glendaleguitars.com/halfplate__tonering.htm That'll fit in a tele bridge route no matter what pickup you use.

 

[tfarny]

Make sure the preexisting tele bridge route won't peek out above the HB mounting ring, then. I think it might. I don't like the HB tele bridge too much either but it's the straightforward workaround.