I just found out John 5 uses a Tele Hot Rails. GROSS! I guess it does sound really good with some gain on it, but come on, who plays metal pickups completely clean? Well, me and Erica both do, actually. But the Enforcer is really versatile! And also used by John 5, by the way. The Hot Rails isn't versatile at all unless you have your tone potentiometer at 1meg, and that will just RUIN your neck's tone. So do yourself a favor and never, ever, ever buy the HR for Tele. If you already did, call the Seymour Duncan custom shop and have them rewind it to a Vintage Rails. And then wire that in parallel. And there you have a Duncan Jazz in your bridge! Paired with, say, a Duncan 5-2, you have a pretty great Telecaster. Actually, now that I thought of that, I'm definitely gonna do it. Thanks, me! Wouldn't it be ironic if I got the John 5 signature Tele just for that? The answer is, "kind of." Because I also need another Enforcer, and they're a bit hard to come by these days.
Love,
/Andy
