All stainless is not the same
Some react to magnetic fields and inductance
I want to say 702 is the food grade non ferrous
And the 716 is the construction grade ferrous type
I may have those numbers wrong
I am old btw
The ignore list now works
There is a reason some people are on it
Wish you luck in your enterprise
Is it a standard c shape and 25.5 inch scale ?
Or some other scale?
I did notice humbuckers are much brighter with higher value pots
Most everything i have is humbuckers with 500k pots
I have one set of Carvin pickups that are a bit dark
I have thought about going to one meg posts in that one
But I like having another flavor
Are you someone who uses the volume control for dynamic effect
Or just wide open and GO
On my Gibson with the audio taper 500k pot "master volume master tone not individual "
I back the volume down a quarter turn and raise the pickups to the edge of breakup
Then used the volume to clean up...
My headless Ehdwuld branded are Basswood
As are my Ibanez
I like them
Do they sound different from my two swamp ash guitars one an LP one a headless strandberg copy. Yes they are different
I find the difference between A2 , A4 & A5 to be subtle at best
Even between ceramic and alnico is very slight
In a mix all of the differences disappear
Or an adjustment to the tone control will do that
Philadelphia has the dimensions of the magnets posted on their site
They sell several different sizes
I was disappointed that they didn't have a double thick one with the dimensions of a ceramic that I was replacing
But I was able to create a cardboard shim to take up the extra space
This...