Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

[Jonny R]

Hi all,

I have a strat shaped mahogany neck-thru with maple sides. Custom guitar I bought from a friend.

At the moment it has two Invaders, and a single coil staggered SD in the middle (H-S-H).

I've been thinking about swapping the 59(N) and Bill Lawrence (B) from my old Washburn Nuno into it....

What do you all think?

[Cory_Dylan]

Re: Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

1 y do you want to change your pickups and what are you looking for
2 do you like the washburn or ever play it (you said "old") ?

man those are some high output pickups for an sd staggered.... do you have volume problems with the pickups or do you split the humbuckers in the 2 and 4 positions? (are all hsh wired that way? because i have no clue) if you are, the '59 sounds really nice split, i use a split '59 neck a LOT, that should sound good paired with that sd s/c. i don't know about the bill lawrence so i won't comment on it.

[Jonny R]

Re: Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

Well, my band has changed our sound completely (partly due to an aging singer haha) from heavy rock to predominantly funk blues/jazz stuff.

I can get some decent sounds from this guitar for this music, but sometimes the pickups are just too big and fat...

I think the 59 may be really good for this...and the Bill Lawrence is a nice sounding pickup which could still cover rock

I don't use the Nuno much anymore, mainly because I'm not so keen on Floyd Rose bridges now...but it's an ok guitar.

If I change I might just slap the invaders into it hahaha

[Xeromus]

Re: Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

I just put a Jazz neck and Custom bridge in my Mahogany set neck guitar and hated it. Put back the '59 neck and JB bridge and now it's a guitar that makes you say "god damn!" when you play it. They sound perfect in it.

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Re: Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

take out those invaders and put the 59 in neck and a JB or PG in bridge!

the pG can do metal well, and the 59 is great in the neck.

[Jonny R]

Re: Pickups in mahogany neck-thru maple sides

Thanks guys, yeah, I'm getting more and more keen on moving that 59 to the neck.

Not sure what I'll do with the bridge. Might research a little more on the Bill Lawrence to see what it compares to.