jellybelly said: I'm stripping my tele of its original set (USA standard) to put some cheeky humbuckers in it, would sell you the neck lipstick on the cheap?
that's not a lipstick dude, it's a tele neck pickup. "lipstick" pickups are the original danelectro single coils (which were housed in chrome lipstick tubes they got cheap from a cosmetics supplier, which is where the name came from). there are now many "strat" lipstick imitations, which use the dano design in a smaller tube that will go in a regular fender singlecoil space without routing, like SD's.
tele neck pickups are pretty much small, underpowered versions of what would become the strat pickups. they have a chrome cover, but comparisons to lipsticks end there.
