I bought this because i wanted a nice authentic sounding vintage style pickup in my telecaster. I pulled out the orignal factory pickups in my Fender Made in Mexico Telecaster and installed this one together with the Duncan STL-1. It sounded really, great, what an improvement! It is very, very well balanced with a really nice warmth, it is a great blues lead pickup. Together with the Seymour Duncan STL-1 which has that legendary twang sound this sounds really authentic. I'd say it is one of the best sounding vintage style telecaster pickups you can get without busting the bank.