When I was aiming for a more like vintage tone and vibe for my telecaster, I decided to throw out my hum buckers and install some decent single coils, but I also needed some new 250 kOhm Potentiometers to get the volume and tone roll of right again. With 500 kOhm ones, you would normally use for hum buckers, or other fat pickups, you just won't get the controls you are looking for.
The Göldos are quite decent and work as they should and are for their price probably the best you can get.
There are better ones like the potentiometers from cts, which have a higher quality and work smoother, but these work fine for me.