Recent content by appar111

Just picked up a 2019 Gibson Les Paul Jr. Double Cutaway this weekend and I'm loving the look and feel. Stock pickup doesn't sound bad, but I want to hot rod it a bit without spending dough on a new pickup. Does anyone know what magnets Gibson puts in their stock P90s? Also, what would be a...

Dug out one of my old guitars and debating just going for a classic PAF sound and thought "why not just go for an actual Gibson '57 Classic PAF humbucker?" Then I saw that they are $155 new??? Is anyone actually buying these for that price new? It seems that there are so many other PAF type...

Just curious, as I have a tele bridge pickup from a Fender CS Esquire that never did anything for me, so I was thinking of sending it in to the Duncan Custom Shop for a rewind. I was also considering ordering a Don Mare pickup, and the wait time for those is 2+ months. Given that I've always...

Thinking of putting a new pickguard on my strat but need to order a new pickguard. Has anyone tried FS-1's in the neck and middle, with a '78 in the bridge? How does the '78 balance with the slightly hotter strat pickups?

Just wondering if I can use an Antiquity II neck pickup with an Antiquity I tele bridge pickup and have them be in phase, or if I’d have to swap the hot and ground wires on the bridge pickup to get them to be in phase with each other in the middle position? For some reason, I thought the Ant I...

Thinking of getting a Duncan Antiquity strat pickup for the neck position of my strat (swamp ash body, maple neck & fretboard, non-fine tuner Floyd rose, single 250K volume pot). It currently has an old PAF Pro in the bridge position, but I may be swapping that soon for a Duncan '78. I need a...

So I'm putting together a new pickguard for my beat up franky (hardtail alder strat body with a maple neck w/ rosewood fretboard) which currently has a single EVH Wolfgang neck humbucker in the bridge and a 500K pot. It's been a fantastic rock setup that always sounds good, but I recently got...

Hey guys, hoping to get some recommendations on a replacement pickup for a Dimarzio Twang King neck pickup. I purchased a Richie Kotzen Telecaster a few months ago and love it. Almost everything I want in a tele. One of the things that's been a bit of a battle is the Twang King in the neck...

Just picked up a nice Ibanez RG652FX dual humbucker hardtail and I'm loving how well it plays! It currently has a Tone Zone in the bridge and an Air Norton in the neck. I'm looking for something that can give me some really good clean tones. The stock 5 way switch currently gives me: 1...

I've decided I need a noiseless pickup for my Fender CS Esquire-- I've been using a 5150iii amp lately with a fair amount of gain and the single coil hum is just too much. Looking at the following for options (some of which I've tried before, but never with this guitar or this amp): Dimarzio...

Originally I thought I was looking for a big sounding humbucker for my hardtail strat (alder, with maple neck and rosewood board), but I thought about it some more and what I'm really looking for is something upfront and loud sounding. Something that really cuts through and doesn't sound...

Looking at replacing the Celestion special design speaker in my 5150iii 1x12 combo amp and the choices are dizzying. I think the relatively safe bet is an Eminence Legend, but I just saw that there are like 5 or 6 different types of Legends: Legend 1218 - 150 watts (american sounding--...

Hoping to track down a used one for a good price-- preferably black (or if it's an older white one that's all yellowed, that would be great too). Please PM if you have one you're looking to sell. thanks! J.

Thinking of swapping my single humbucker pickguard out on my hardtail strat for something with a single coil in the bridge position. I've got a couple strat pickguards (SSS and SSH, w/ the humbucker in the neck position) that I got in some trade deals that I can use. Thinking of something tele...

I know he's used a bunch of different pickups in his ol #1 maple Tiger over the years-- Distortion, Pearly Gates, Custom Custom, Screamin' Demon, etc. Does anyone know what he currently has in it?