Telecaster w/ humbucker and singlecoil

Looking for a guitar of the telecaster shape. I'd love a humbucker in the neck but on most teles there are only singlecoils. An ideal design for me would be a humbucker in the neck and a singlecoil in the bridge aswell as a maple fretboard. I suppose I could buy a second hand tele and put a stacked single coil in, but I don't think it will sound the same. Maybe these requirements are too strict but if anyone knows any guitars please suggest them!!

70s style tele custom, its supposed to be a wide range humbucker, which is its own thing, but modern oens have a standard gibsons tyle humbucker in a wide range housing... look at the MIM classic series, they make a tele custom for udner a grand new and a lot cheaper used.

or build a partscaster, its easy to find painted bodies routed for a gibson hubucker, minibucker or gretsch fitlertron at the neck... also, go on reverb and search, lots of small buidler partscasters of high quality built to Keef spec with a lap-steel/broadcaster type bridge pickup and a PAF style humbucker at the neck in a 50s style tele build.

PS: the fitlertron pairs better with msot tele bridge pickups then a gibson style humbuggie... you want a really hot, early 50s bridge pickup to pair with a low output PAF or minibucker neck, the fitlertron is much lwoer output and is much brighter so it will mates very well with the lower-wind, alnico5 and ceramic magnet tele bridge pickups.

Awsome! Thanks for your reply. Those 70s Teles look pretty sick. I'll see if I can pick up one used. Also what do you think about the ESP LTD Tele series. I just found out those have one singlecoil, one humbucker in the bridge aswell as a maple fretboard. Could it be a match made in heaven?

I don't know anything about ESPs recent guitars. I know they made good, affordable japanese super strats when iw as a kid and all the emtal guys left Jackson and Kramer and flipped to ESP starting with Kirk Hammet. I know they made the good gibson knockoffs udner the names Edwards and now those are less good and their good line of gibbies is Navigator. But these LTD guitars? dunno. I've only ever picked up on, a silver sparkle LP copy, and it had a wimpy little neck so I put it put it back down. I've enver seen their tele shape, just LPs, strats and pseudo-SGs... all of which remind me of every other recent far east-guitar.

Check out Reverend if you're trying to avoid an actual fender. i thnkk they're Korean but i've enver picked up a bad Reverend. They do a lot of interesting pickup combinations and have a billion shapes. I see in your profile that you're a Swedish metalhead... you may prefer a reverend to a more stock tele. Their Railhammer humbuckers are very popular with the heavy crowd right now. Look them up, for real. They're really innovative. Company was founded by Joe Naylor of Naylor amps. Pretty famous innovator.

In old guitars, in addition to their excellent les pauls, in the 70s and early 80s Tokai and Greco made awesome MIJ copies of vintage fender models and the teles don't command a lot of money. If you scan reverb or ebay you may find one of those vintage Tele Custom copies for cheap...

if you're into P90s as wella s humbuckers look for a fender aerodyne tele, i ahd oen for awhile and while it didn't do it for me it was an amazing player. I almost wish i ahd kept it just for the enck. It was the eprfect medium-roudned vitnage shape like my SG but not a baseballbat like some of my LPs.

I could go on. There are a million great teles out there, its an easy guitar to build right. And again YOU can build one to your spec. My favorite telecaster is a partscaster. I basically built a '58/59 spec from some fender parts with a custom made pickup set, rutters bridge and flipped controls.... sucker is better than all my factory fenders. Swear to god. All in I think i spent 700 USD and my labor time. Most of that was pickups and the lazer-cut bridge/saddle set. You don't HAVE to go insane with the best parts on the market...

go look at whats on my equipboard and you'll see I'm pretty serious about guitar trading, so I have played or owned pretty much every guitar I recommend. I've been doing this FOREVER.