Seymour Duncan STK-T3B BLK

after years of revisiting Teles and then selling them due to hating the piercing bridge pickup sound....then buying them again and trying just about every pickup out there....FINALLY invested in one of these ...and Im blown away.
What the problem has been in the past is ....normal pickups which are just as piercing.....or mini humbuckers which have no character and change the tele into something its not. Somehow this Vintage Stack manages to keep all the good bits of the Tele sound....but beef it up enough to give you the depth and variety to cover all types of music.
Cannot recommend this enough.

It was to improve a Squier Affinity. The diagram is clear and soldering went easily, the mounting screws fit the standard bridge without any problem. The wires are long enough to reach the pots and selector even if the plate is inverted, as mine is. The tone is both more powerful and much quieter but especially better in beauty, warmer with more of everything, harmonics, punch, transparency, the whole squad.

Compared to Fender Noiseless pickups this one kept a tiny little bit of hum, but maybe because the Fender set is delivered with high quality pots, resistor and capacitors. The residual hum is not annoying at all, just an piece of info I add because the techies out there want to know every detail.

My Affinity has those little cheap pots, I'll probably replace them next time I change the strings, quality pots cost only a few euros more than low-end pots so it's worth doing and they will surely be more durable.

Totally fine pickup and recommended for any use, it's hot enough for metal with high gain distortions.

I got this pickup to put into an 85 Tokai T model. It is an Ash body with maple neck and fingerboard. I found the pickup to be very full sounding across the whole frequency range with a very string upped mid presence that meant it never sounded thin or brittle. It is totally noiseless (in practical terms) and yet still manages to sound just like a telecaster at all times. It takes gain much better than regular singles but never loses the tele character that's so important. I use this with 500k pots as it is technically a humbucker so remember that if you're planning on getting one. Overall a very versatile professional sounding pickup and great value