JBJ at neck position

[krh.creations]

First time poster here.

I have an old Ibanez Roadmaster (HH) that has two humbuckers in it. At the bridge I installed a newish JB Trembucker which I love. At the neck I put in a JBJ that came out of an old Gibson L5 knockoff I picked up used. The seller had the pickup in the neck position and it sounded sweet & articulate. I needed a neck pickup in the Ibanez so I stuck in the JBJ thinking is was a Duncan Jazz pickup (oops). The pole piece spacing is approx 50mm.

So besides sounding inarticulate and mushy, I wonder if the JBJ really belongs in the bridge position of another guitar. My question is; are there or were there ever specific “neck models” of the JB/JBJ pickup (lighter wind, narrow pole piece spacing, etc)? Unfortunately I don’t have an R (ohm) reading for mine.

 

[jeremy]

there was never a neck wind for the jb, i do think there were some oem narrow spacing jbs at one point

 

[krh.creations]

Thanks for the info. I’ll probably swap in a ‘59 and find a home for the JBJ elsewhere

 

[Chistopher]

Have you tried it in parallel?

 

[Mincer]

I bet the JBJ would sound amazing in the bridge position of any guitar.

 

[krh.creations]

Thanks for the info. I probably swap in a ‘59 and find a home for the JBJ elsewhere

Have you tried it in parallel?

I kept the wiring of the Ibanez stock with each volume knob set as a push-push coil split. The JBJ is rare enough and valuable enough that I’m not interested in experimenting with it further. I’m generally not even interested in coil splitting, but it made sense to me to keep the guitar close to stock anyway.

 

[krh.creations]

I bet the JBJ would sound amazing in the bridge position of any guitar.

I have a LP style and BCR Mockingbird w/ tune o matic bridge types. I’m leaning toward one of those. Just not right away.