NOPD - Double Double Cream

[beaubrummels]

New Old Pickup Day
While waiting for Ace's epic install, I put the complimentary set in my SG:

Bridge: ~1977 "The JB Model" (possibly/likely Seymour-wound)
Neck: 2007 Alnico 2 Pro / Pearly Gates hybrid (assembled by Theodie)

I haven't put them through their paces yet, but they make a pretty good pair. The neck actually upstages the JB a bit in the middle position. Lowering the neck balances the output levels, but it doesn't sound as good lowered. Still working through it. But both of them sound really good. This JB model is nothing like complaints I've read. It's a great sounding bridge humbucker, even clean in all-mahogany.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

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Older JBs are wound a hair lighter I think, and may have a rough magnet instead of smooth. I never checked the mag in mine but it reads 15.7K, where my more recent ones read 16.2 and 16.4. I often need to turn my neck pickup down a bit to balance well with a JB in middle position; I believe it's due to the mismatch in their DCRs. JB has higher output but not enough to make up for having more than double the resistance. The lower output pickup passes a lot more juice when they're both on.

 

[Mincer]

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Wow, that actually looks really cool, even with the rings on the pickguard and the different colors. Very unique.

 

[beaubrummels]

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Wow, that actually looks really cool, even with the rings on the pickguard and the different colors. Very unique.

In real life, the pickguard is more yellow and the rings and pickups all blend in better. Don't know why it looks whiter in the photo.

The rings don't belong on there, but they are angled so I use them to angle the pickup to match the string angle. Without the rings, the pickups sit at this kind of stairstep angle against the strings; and while that works, it's not what I want sound or playing-wise.

 

[BriGuy1968]

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Great looking SG, BB... very classy!


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[YeRedHouseOverYonder]

NOPD - Double Double Cream

Congrats on the double cream pickups. The guitar looks great and they're always worth the effort to hunt down. These are becoming harder to find.


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[Hank-]

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The rings don't belong on there, but they are angled so I use them to angle the pickup to match the string angle. Without the rings, the pickups sit at this kind of stairstep angle against the strings; and while that works, it's not what I want sound or playing-wise.

You could also try adding some foam underneath the pickups such that they sit at an angle without the rings. The bridge ring looks fine but the neck one is kinda odd looking with the ring coming out of the pick guard but hey thats just me, if ya like it then its good.

 

[beaubrummels]

NOPD - Double Double Cream

You could also try adding some foam underneath the pickups such that they sit at an angle without the rings. The bridge ring looks fine but the neck one is kinda odd looking with the ring coming out of the pick guard but hey thats just me, if ya like it then its good.

There's two reasons I don't use foam: I don't cut pickup leads, so there's some wire under there, and I've had foam do the opposite where it made the tilt worse in the wrong direction. It works for some guys, I just found it difficult to work with.

 

[Dave Locher]

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I prefer rings on most humbucker guitars whether or not they have a pickguard, especially on a model like the SG where some variations come stock with them. Id be tempted to swap in a black pickguard, but thats just my taste.
Looks great!

 

[Wattage]

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Aay!

I did the double double last week too!

1980 Ibanez Super 70's

 

[beaubrummels]

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Aay!

I did the double double last week too!

1980 Ibanez Super 70's

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That is nice! Ibby Super series are great great pickups.