Texas Special for the bridge?

[mr_sooty]

I really want to get a little more out of my '57 Reissue Strat bridge position, but I don't want to go to a humbucker. I've been contemplating this for a while actually, and posted about it before.

I have a HSS US deluxe strat as well, and I want to keep my '57 a little more 'stratty', but the bridge pickup is very thin and tinny.

I was thinking maybe a texas special might be the way to go, just give it a little more meat, without going over the top. It's important I keep that 2nd position quack too.

Has anybody else got a bridge texas special? What do ya reckon?

[ChrisK]

Ya might try some wiring stuff;

guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=schem

Here are two of my favourites.

guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=schem&action=display&thread=1163395682

guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=schem&action=display&thread=1153172741

[mr_sooty]

Thanks, but I'm not so flash at following those. I don't want to add any swtches, and I'm not sure that 2 pickups in series is the way to go. I have that on my Amercan deluxe (neck and middle) and it doesn't seem to give me much. Stiil sound like 2 pickups to me.

I really just want a slightly meatier pickup than the one I've got.

[Ripper]

Yepper!...Im my opinion its got a nice snarl to it without it being too harsh. It cleans up nicely when you back off the volume.

[ChrisK]

I've never used Texas Specials but I have Tex-Mex pickups in my Dlx Nashville Power Tele.

I'm putting a set of Rio Grande Dual Calibrated Strat pickups in my bro'n law's Am Strat. These are all about the Texas sound.

I used DiMarzio Virtual Vintage in the PadoukCaster
guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=1144693179

[mr_sooty]

Right, so that tells me what you've got, but it doesn'ttell me what you think of them.