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To add: No need to unscrew completely the 4 bobbin screws going into the baseplate, just enough to be able to lift the bobbins off the...

No chance, from 1969 on they had clear bobbins and before that they had black bobbins with silvernickel baseplates.

A 50 year old A2 magnet is going to sound different than a brand new one, that is unless you recharge it. An A5 or a ceramic won't have...

What colour has the bobbin? Do I see black plastics thru the holes? Then it's younger than mid 80ies.

The bars don't show output, but a relation of bass, miss and trebles. In the perception of most people more bass is like a higher volume.

I talked everybody out of changing to EMG. One exception was a guy who played loud old school Hardrock with a white strat into a...

I always liked the Custom5 in a SG. Funny enough because I didn't like it in everything else. It's scooped sound goes well with the SG.

I like this vid about 9 tone woods in a identical strat. Most audible differences on the bridge pickup. I liked Obeche most 🤔

The worst sounding wood I have found is Agathis. Squire loved using it in the early 2000s.

Since I have a gaussmeter I can measure the magnetic strength a certain point of the bar. Some magnets are more even chargeable than...

The PG is already too bright, so split/parallel isn't very useful.

I like a 300k vol pot in the bridge with a brite guitar/pickup, but never in the neck.

I was shocked everytime i checked a 70ies up to mid 80ies Gibson Les Paul. 300k vol pots, 150k tone pots were standard and even some of...

I swapped in a A5 and saw an improvement. Less wooley, less mids, more cut. But all in all i am still struggling, but maybe its the...

For the Tele necks i would go for Fender's "Twisted Tele" pickup. It sounds much closer to the strat neck pickup which is very good.