Any experiences with the GFS Thin Jazz floating neck humbucker?

[DirtyBluesBoy]

I was just given an old Serenader archtop. I'd like to put a pickup on it and use it as my electric slide guitar (a la Jack White with his Kay). I can't find any reviews for this pickup on the internet. Has anyone tried it and formed any opinions? I don't have the money right now to buy one of the nicer floating pickups, although I'd be interested in any other options. There isn't too much space between the body and the strings to fit a pickup, so anything I get will have to be pretty thin. Like I said, this is a blues slide guitar, so I'm not too concerned about pretty, warm, jazz tone. I will almost always play it with at least a little bit of dirt. I would just fit it with a dogear P90 but I really don't want to drill any holes.

Also, Here is a pic of the guitar in question:



Upon a bit of research, it seems to be a 1950's Harmony, just re-branded for smaller (or at least smaller than Sears) vendor, although I could be wrong. I haven't found any info on these Serenaders, but it seems to match up perfectly with the 1950's Harmony Auditorium model. If anybody happens to know anything about these things, I'd be very interested to hear. It's an awesome guitar, especially considering it was free!

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Any experiences with the GFS Thin Jazz floating neck humbucker?

you might find that a lot of the floating pickups out there are still too thick. It really depends on how much space you have, so you better measure it to make sure a floating pickup will fit. If none of the usual suspects are thin enough then you will need to get in touch with the custom shop at Kent Armstrong (not the normal slim Kent Armstrongs) and order something called a 2-D.
These are the regular ones:
http://www.wdmusic.com/kent_armstrong_jazz_guitar_pickups.html
and this is the 2-D:
http://www.djangobooks.com/Item/kent-armstrong-2-d-micro-humbucker


....or if you want to go seriously retro, see if you can find an old dearmond "rhythm chief" pickup (also known affectionately as the "monkey on a stick")