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Also an important thing about outsourcing labor overseas is that it only really counts as short term gain for the company doing it. Sure the company makes more money today, but by sending your expertise far away, you are building up a knowledge base elsewhere. You hollow out domestic skills and...

A3 has a touch less bass and a touch more treble than an A2. They are extremely close. If you held me at gun point and asked me to blindly pick which of two otherwise equal pickups was an A2 and which was an A3, there would be a 50/50 chance you would shoot me.

I've never heard of this pickup set before

If you type 40 words per minute with no errors or time for thinking, this took at minimum 18 minutes to type. If you are anything like me, and take time to think and/or revise on longer posts, we are talking around 30 minutes of effort

New epi headstock is not nearly as ugly.

It's been a long time since EVH has been described as modern

If you want to reuse the same ring you have on your guitar, you have to get standard spacing.

Note that seymour duncan trembuckers require special pickup mounting rings, so you might have to order cream rings separately

Hmm... so do different architectures

They've done it. They have crafted the perfect advertisement. Never have I read a paragraph that said so little, yet managed to get me excited.

I don't know if this really applies to guitars, but my uncle was a fairly renowned semi-pro golfer and my uncle was a sponsored drag racer, and they agreed that "semi-pro" means your hobby has made you enough money to pay for itself.

Sniper got him before he could finish typing

The mineral oil partially evaporates, so I don't think it'll drip. I'll try it when I get a cheapo pickup to test it on

If you are purely experimenting, I've often pondered if you could just dip them in room temperature butcher block conditioner. It's just beeswax and mineral oil. Perhaps not the best for warmer climates.

Especially on an electric range. The temperature response on those things is far from linear. The difference between 5 and 6 on my stove is larger than the differences between 5 and 2