Seymour Duncan Hot Rails for Tele Pickup Set

Ollie is a great guitar tech. He installed my Hot Rail pick ups. Great job. Flawless work, sounds great, love my Tele. Thank you Ollie

these are really versatile with coil tap wiring. You can go chunky humbucker or single coil sparkle. I am going to try 1 more time, but I can't seem to get them wired up with a push pull for coil tapping. I've looked at Duncan's wiring diagrams, obviously and what throws me is the way they picture the push pull pot. Am I looking at the thing from beneath it ? and then the push pull lugs ? very confused and they don't even use but 2 of the lugs in the switching section. I fell in love with my 66 musicmaster that I had one or these installed in the bridge. The original 66 neck is just ...beautiful, but with the tone control swapped out for a push pull volume for the bridge, it's nice and simple: roll the neck volume up or down and then you have chunky metal like crunch w/both coils, or pull the pot and you get strat-ish single coil bite. The only position I ever have a tone control is dimed anyway so not missing it.Maybe I have to admit defeat and have my friend wire them up for me? lol, good thing I am not stubborn !!

So you bought a Tele because everyone on YouTube says you need one. Can't be a "real" guitar player without a Tele! Turns out you you actually needed a humbucker loaded guitar to play the music you're interested in playing. If you like the elegant simplicity of the 2 pups on a slab of wood but you need to chug enter Hot Rails! Chunky sounding palm muting, fat mids, and solos that pop out of a mix. These are great pups for modern or classic metal. The cleans are so so but you don't buy Hot Rails for sparkly clean tone. You want the old heads to look at you sideways because you "ruined" your telecaster! Highly recommended heavy pickups.

I've played a Tele with Hot Rails in the studio years ago and I knew that this was the only way to go with a Telecaster for the realm of music I play. Not only do the Rails add to the aesthetic appeal but they have changed my Tele into a whole different guitar making it a force to be reckoned with when it comes to Metal/Punk style distorted guitar. My tone is far deeper and the sound you get out of these Rails is way heavier than what you would with the stock pick ups Fender uses. Everything from pinching notes to harmonics to palm muting is far beyond what anyone would expect from a Telecaster. My guitar does not look the way it sounds. This guitar is now complete. Thank you.

I have always been a fan of the classic look of the Telecaster, and a huge fan of Seymour D's pickups. I actually have a set of the Quarter Pounder SD's on another Tele and I simply loved them, but I was still looking for a heavier sound to put on the beauty of a Telecaster. Man, this thing is the real deal! These pickups turn my guitar into a dragon. The sound is huge, clear, and makes the poeple turn and look at my guitar. Everybody looks surprised when they realize all that power is coming out of Telecaster. Now I have my dream guitar, looking the way I always wanted and sounding better than I could ever imagined it could be. By the way, I have 10 guitars and now this is my favorite of all. Hats off to the Seymour Duncan team, you guys Rock!!!

I bought these pups for my tele to beef up my sound so I could achieve a nice heavy distortion through my orange amps. I personally play punk/hardcore music and these pups did the trick. Many players out there will say that telecasters aren't really for heavier music, which I can understand why they would say due to their bluesy/twang sound, but for me telecasters was my guitar of choice because I loved the feel and look beyond other guitars. I've played many different guitars (more suitable for my genre) but nothing could really sell me like the simple look and smooth feel of a telecaster. So popping in these nice hot rails put a smile on my face as I was able to achieve what I was looking for as a played heavy powerful riffs. If you're in the same avenue as I was looking to play some heavier genres of music on your telecaster, look no further because these pups are the ones for you.