Telecaster too "dark sounding"?

Citation : THE PROBLEM: My MIM thinline was too dark sounding, and as you all know they don't make replacement pick-ups for the odd-sized stock "wide-range" humbuckers.


THE SOLUTION: Quick, cheap and easy. In an hour, and for under 10 bucks, I switched the volume and tone pots from 250k to 500k and really opened up the sound of the humbuckers. Voila! Keith Fucking Richards forever!


I did some research and found that original thinlines came with "icepick-like" 1meg volume and tones pots. The Made in Japan ones, which everyone seems to think sound a little better than the MIMs use 500K pots(which is fairly standard for humbuckers), and my MIM came stock with 250k humbuckers (which are generally used to dampen the high end on single coil guitars).