Recent content by jwt55

I'd like to trade 2 or 3 unpolished A8 magnets for polished A8 magnets.

I swapped the A2 magnets from my pearly gates for A8 magnets. Seems it worked as expected with the neck pickup but the bridge pickup sounds weak. I followed the directions in a link here and the only thing I can imagine is that I might have loosened the 4 screws on the back too much so that...

I am switching out my Epiphone LP pickups for a pearly gates pair. I soldered according to the diagram for 2 pickups, 2 vol, 2 tone, 3 way switch and at least they both worked. But the neck pickup didn't turn down. It just stayed about the same level from 1-10 on the vol or maybe a little...

Hi, I am afraid I have killed my pots. I had a good result with the bridge pickup but the neck pickup wouldn't turn down. It just stayed loud and got a little quieter about 5 on the vol control. So I played with the wires and retaped the red and white conductors and the bridge wires came off...

Would a Pearly Gates Neck and Duncan Custom Bridge work well together?

Hello, I am new to the forum and don't know much about pickups. I had played a guitar with pearly gates neck and bridge recently and wondered how the 490/498 set would compare. I like the ZZTop sound. I have an Epi LP that came with EMG 81/85 and am looking for a more versatile sound with...