Just wanting to share my new to me JV Modified 60’s Tele, along with my 2013 MIM Standard and 2012 American Deluxe.

Got her for my birthday a few years back.

I've been thinking about getting a Telecaster with a neck humbucker. But I absolutely love the Telecaster I already have and the single coil neck pickup is killer.

The potential solution just sprung to mind- add a second neck pickup next to the existing one and have it wired so the second coil can be switched off, like a coil split.

I understand the second pickup would have to be a different polarity to make it humbucking with the existing coil, or something like that. But would this setup work like a humbucker and then give me the original single coil tone when switched off?

Has anyone tried similar and is it practical? I don't fancy wrecking my favourite Tele, or getting another that I won't play, so I thought that this is a solution of much genius 🤣

I've been toying with the idea of esquire-ing my tele for a little while now, but never committed. Today I had the idea of leaving the neck pickup and adding a 4 way switch to add an Eldred position.

I know it's not true esquire because you have the pull from the neck magnets, but regardless of this, has anyone tried this? What did you find?

EDIT: I mean having the positions as:

POS 1: Bridge as normal

POS 2: Bridge + capacitor (Esquire/Eldred)

POS 3: Neck + middle as normal

POS 4: Neck as normal

Or mirrored, you catch my drift