Telecaster sound and video clips:
The Ironstone Telecaster / Tele pickups use a mixture of Alnico V (bridge) and Alnico 3 (neck) pole pieces, giving warm, bright vintage tones. The mixed magnets and significant construction differences, mean the Tele bridge and neck have their own individual character blended with that vintage tone base.
The Telecaster sound clips below give a representative sample of the tones available from this style. The Ironstone Tele pickup tones are not so much an artist as an era! Think classic 50's & 60's, everything from rock to blues, jazz to country.
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‘Almost ‘ Clean:
‘A Bit More Drive’:
The Breeze & I:
Thanks to Paul White for some clips recorded with a Vox amp with a touch of drive.
Again, thanks to Paul White for some clips with a little more drive.
Another Jim Collins rendition (also see video below), The Breeze and I (Shadows 'With Strings Attached');
First verse neck pickup , second verse both and finally third verse Bridge pickup only.
Thanks to Niall King for a sound clip of 'Brass in Pocket' using Ironstone Tele pickups in a Chord Tele copy, through a Old fender cyber twin, with a bit of chorus.
Thanks again to Niall King for another sound clip 'Blues in A' using Ironstone Tele pickups.
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Thanks to Neville Campbell-Barker for a great demo using Ironstone Tele pickups. Be warned, not the typical musical style you expect from a Telecaster!
Two great videos from Pat Vurden over in France, stepping through the 3 way with his lefty Harley Benton TE-52 using Ironstone pickups. Full equipment list on his YouTube channel, but includes a Fender Blues Junior, with Cannabis Rex speaker and Okko Diablo Gain + Overdrive. Many Thanks Stephane.
Thanks to Jim Collins for this video of him playing Harvest Moon using his Ironstone'd Surf Green Tele. Great example of the Tele tone cutting through the mix with a Strat.
A big thanks to Simon Taylor for this clip with stripped back strum patterns whilst stepping through the 3 Tele switch positions. Very useful for assessing raw Ironstone Tele tones. The guitar is a Jet JT 300.
A video from the Basque country in Spain, thanks to Juan Gumuzio and the band Still River. Juan's playing a home built Telecaster with Ironstone pickups. The clip starts with him playing rhythm with the neck pup and then a nice bit of soloing too!
And a 2013 YouTube clip of an Ironstone equipped Tele being put through its paces..