pickups for a hofner?

[DrDespair]

Hi.

I plan to get new pickups for my höfner verythin (John stowell)

It is a very different guitar:

Maple and Spruce
Fender-Scale
Wooden bridge, jazz contruction and tailpiece
Floating pickup

The acoustic sound is full, bright, fast attack, Ringing quality.
almost like a dreadnaught...

The pickup is terrible for that guitar.
I´ll have to do routing anyway, so what could I do to get that sound electrically?

I must have a singlcoil in neck pos. Noisless!
And a sonically matching bridge.

what could I do?

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: pickups for a hofner?

I wouldn't go very far with modifying that guitar! I would look for a 335 clone instead. If it is the model I am thinking of you could replace the neck mounted floating mini-humbucker but I wouldn't route the guitar to mount any other pickups. SD markets a floating neck position pickup for jazz boxes under the Benedetto name. With a 335 clone you could mount whatever noiseless singles in it with a humbucker to single coil adapter. Otherwise there isn't much out there for mini-humbucker/p-90 noiseless pickups.

http://www.hofner.com/gab/de/phpsho...op.zupf_flypage/product_id,34/category_id,24/
http://benedettopickups.com/products.htm

 

[DrDespair]

Re: pickups for a hofner?

Well I'm also a little shy drilling holes into that beauty.
Mine has a amber violin finish....

But the electric s**ks. It's a Jazz-Box scheme on a ACDC-Beatles crossover rocker.

I imagined some thing like this:
two humbuckers.
Neck a Customshop 3+3, wired as a noiseless singlecoil.
Bridge: Open, ringing and airy, never muddy. Like a Tele bridge with a little more uppe midrange to bring it into Highway to Hell territory. Back off volume and you go Daytripper, yeah.

The PUs should match, Same low and top end, but completly different charakteristics. No compression. no boominess.
I use a ClassA Amp driven with a booster to HighGain, I can use plenty of articulation.

any comments welcome
DrDespair

 

[dukeplaysbass]

Re: pickups for a hofner?

I had the entry-level version of the Verithin (the one with the two-piece LP-style bridge and tailpiece, not the trapeeze version....) It was gorgeous....

Given what you're after, I'd be more inclined to sell it off or just get a 335 (or find an old Ibanez copy). That way you can swap pups until you're content and not have to worry about routing.....

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: pickups for a hofner?

Tokai makes a very nice 335 clone for $399. You are looking at least that much to modify what you have and risk destroying it in the process. Also that non-adjustable wood bridge combined with distortion is a bad idea.