TK Smith vibrato & Mastery bridge

You can use a TK Smith, a chopped B5 or a B16 on a Tele but you need a shim or an angled neck pocket to get the correct angle for those Vibrato systems.

 

Dunno about pkup rings but I would highly recommend a bar bridge with this construction.

 

There's a few vendors for the surrounds, usually billed as a replacement for humbuckers.

 

Or like Reverend does it..



With a B5

 

dBridges but I‘m afraid he‘s outa business. You can also try and get the Bigsby Rocket bridge via Allparts or a Truarc via f-holes. You‘ve already got the vibrato?

 

Yeah, you can use the offset Mastery, it would be perfect for this. The question is how to get the bridge pickup high enough. B16s with the metal shim leave the bridge pickup just above the body. I could see TK making or having ability to cast a B16 style riser. It wouldn't be cheap that's for sure, but it would be cool

 

The surrounds I posted above are humbucker surround sized. You could use a regular non-slanted humbucker ring as a riser.

 

One thing to consider is buying a B16 to chop, but keep the riser portion. If I was closer I'd say let's go halfs on one, you keep the riser and I get the tail

I'd send you the riser I have but because of the way I chopped it, it's completely unusable.

 

Maybe you should think about different pickup solutions...

 

I‘ve recently bought a Keef bridge pkup from:

https://www.barfuss-pickups.de/

Completely handmade top of the line pkups. He’s doin’ stock or custom wound pickups and they sound paramount.

 

I thought you wanted a Telepickup for the bridge...