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Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400 vs Wolfetone Tele Cub

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Compared with the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400, the Wolfetone Tele Cub has a true single-coil design that hums.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecSeymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400Wolfetone Tele Cub
DC resistancediffers29.2knot published
Inductancenot measurednot measured
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoildiffersHum-cancellingSingle coil
Slotbridge Tele pickupbridge Tele pickup
Traitshigh output, noiseless—

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Magnet
100
both Alnico 5
Coil
0
one hums, one doesn't

Not compared: output, brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

Videos

No videos for either pickup collected yet.

What players and reviewers say

On the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop BG1400

“For example you'd think the bg1400 (30k DCR) SD makes would be all mids and darker than a chalkboard covered in shoe polish but by all accounts it still sounds like a telecaster pickup..”
jimijames · 2014-06-09Seymour Duncan forum ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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