Instead of unnecessarily exposing the pickup to a lot of heat, I recommend drilling holes in the baseplate and attaching the pickup with screws, which would not require any heat at all.
Im curious, will the copper baseplate even have any effect if you are soldering it to a non-conductive metal?
The baseplate of the lipstick pickup is too long to mount to the Tele baseplate. It has to be soldered to the plate. I thought of that already. Thanks.
Can the lipstick basplate be removed, i.e. 3 holes drilled in tele baseplate, 1 for wire, 2 holes for the 2 studs/ground? I dont know how lipsticks are constructed, so if not a viable idea, my bad.
What about JB-weld, or another adhesive? I don't know that a soldering iron will be able to put enough heat into the base plate to melt solder. You could pre-heat the baseplate in an oven.
No it cannot. The pickup wires are soldered to the plate.
So the pickups’ feet stick out too far, right? Sounds like whatever you do, you need to cut off the feet. You can do that carefully (leaving a straight edge in the legs) with a dremel like tool and a few thin cutting wheels. Then I would use some epoxy like JB Weld to either reaffix the feet underneath and then screw mount them to a baseplate, or even just epoxy the pickup legs (sans feet) straight to the baseplate. You don’t need heat of soldering, just epoxy.The baseplate of the lipstick pickup is too long to mount to the Tele baseplate. It has to be soldered to the plate. I thought of that already. Thanks.
So the pickups’ feet stick out too far, right? Sounds like whatever you do, you need to cut off the feet. You can do that carefully (leaving a straight edge in the legs) with a dremel like tool and a few thin cutting wheels. Then I would use some epoxy like JB Weld to either reaffix the feet underneath and then screw mount them to a baseplate, or even just epoxy the pickup legs (sans feet) straight to the baseplate. You don’t need heat of soldering, just epoxy.