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I picked up a Knaggs Kenai today that has these stock. Demos like the ones I 'm going to post below had me thinking they were going to be hotter. But they're far closer to PAFs than I expected. They have a certain clarity without being too bright yet also just sound a little fuller than most PAF...

It was sold as an Antiquity firebird pickup. Just seems like 8.9K means it couldn't be an Antiquity 2 bridge pickup as that would be enough hotter that typical variance in DCR wouldn't make sense. Is it a custom wind? The pictures will tell you all I know without bugging the original owner:

I can't find a wiring diagram, but one solution might be to change the pots to something with higher values. The single coils might get a bit brighter, but I'm thinking I could live with this as almost always leave strat singles with 250K pots with the tone pot on 10. Maybe a higher value might...

Problem: It does not sound to me like I am accessing all the pickup options a triple shot should enable (i.e., each pickup by itself + series + parallel). The neck sounds like I am getting one pickup only and maybe parallel. The bridge pickup sounds like I am getting one pickup only and...

You think this would be super easy to figure out. The guitars top is flat but I realized when at the store the other day that most flat-top guitars don't have angled pickup rings and most arched tops (e.g., epi dot) have ones at an angle like my PRS SE. I am starting to worried I ordered the...

I am nearly dead set on putting P-Rails into a PRS SE using a triple shot to switch between the pickups. What I don't understand, having never installed pickups before, is how (or whether) I can also create a switch to change the pickups from parallel to series when in Humbucker mode using my...