Tele AlNiCo 3 Neck

Product Details

Think "chicken pickin’" and you’ll conjure up the tone and response characteristics of our Alnico 3 T™ pickups. With plenty of punchy attack and reduced sustain, these pickups focus on the fundamental tone produced by your Tele®.

Can’t decide which Lollar Tele pickups are right for you? Our Tele Pickup Comparison video will help you understand—and hear—the differences between our four most popular Tele pickup sets. WATCH VIDEO

Avg. DC: Neck 8.7K (Read about DC resistance)
Recommended Potentiometers: 250k
Recommended Capacitor: 0.047μF

Pre-wired Kit for Teles

Upgrading the electronics in a Tele^® yourself couldn’t be easier than it is with our new Lollar Pre-wired Kits. The kits are hand-wired in our shop and meet Jason Lollar’s preferred specifications.

Whether you’re installing new pickups and want high-quality electronics to go with them, or you want to upgrade the stock electronics in your Tele^®, our pre-wired kits are a great option. We’ve done most of the work so all that’s left for you to do is install the kit in your guitar and solder in your pickups (sold separately).

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Optional 3rd Wire

For Tele neck pickups we offer a 3rd Wire Option (cover ground) that allows you to run a set of our Telecaster replacement pickups in series operation with a 4-way switch—a common mod for customers seeking more versatility than a 3-way switch provides. A 3rd wire allows your pickup to function properly in either series or parallel mode and won't affect the tone in normal operation.

Pickup Dimensions

(Shown with cover)

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you offer staggered-pole Tele pickups?
Staggered-poles are only available for our Alnico 3 Tele Bridge pickups.

What values of potentiometers and capacitors do you recommend for Tele pickups?
The most common/traditional choices are 250k pots (both volume and tone) and .047μF caps—and these are the values we typically recommend. That said, there are no hard and fast rules. You can read more about how different pot and cap values affect tone in this two-part blog post: Part I - Pots, Part II - Caps.

Our Pre-wired Kits for Teles use 250k pots and your choice of the three cap values noted above.

Can I mix and match any of your Tele neck and bridge pickups?
Yes! One thing to be aware of is that the output of different models varies, so you’ll want to consider this when pairing them.

Do you make noiseless pickups for Teles?
Our pickups are inspired by vintage builds and voicing. With that in mind, we do not build true noiseless pickups.

Do you offer “matched” or RWRP pickups for Teles?
Our two-pickup Tele sets feature a bridge pickup wound RWRP (reverse wind, reverse polarity) relative to the neck so that they will be hum cancelling in the middle selector position with proper phase.

What is your recommendation for a humbucker/single coil Tele configuration?
The most popular is a Low Wind Imperial in the neck with a Special T in the bridge. A wide variety of players will find that to be useful in all positions. However, please keep in mind that there is no one “go-to” recommendation as so much depends on playing style and musical taste.

How far from my strings should I set my Tele pickups?
We advise customers to start with 1/8” between their pickups and guitar strings with the strings fretted at the last fret. This is just a good starting point, but you can raise your pickups to increase volume, or lower them to decrease volume. Check out Jason Lollar’s video on Adjusting Your Pickups.