Pickups for jazz, blues, soul, r&b and rock

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Catanduva

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I'm working towards good old PAF tones, but i have a slightly problem.
I decided to try Seth Lovers because it's the sound i'm looking for, the problem is the bridge pickup.

My guitar has it's pickups mounted on the body, so the neck will be fine. But the bridge space/holes are trembucker spaced so the Seth Lover bridge won't fit in. So i'm trying to figure out a pickup for the bridge. I'll be using the bridge for blues and rock tones, nothing too heavy, so i don't want a lot of output. I would get another Seth Lover, but it won't fit.

The guitar specs:
Mahogany body with maple top
Mahogany neck with pau ferro fingerboard
Suhr Modern style, but with 22 frets.
 
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Re: Pickups for jazz, blues, soul, r&b and rock

My guitar now have a '59 neck and Custom bridge.
The bridge has A LOT of bass and it's too high output, the '59 neck is awful. It doesn't have bass and the highs are harsh, i put a capacitor there to filter the highs and it's ok now. But the luthier said that i got a broken '59, he couldn't understand why it sounded that way.

The '59 on the bridge wouldn't have too much highs?
 
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Re: Pickups for jazz, blues, soul, r&b and rock

What exactly won't fit? It should be no problem fitting a humbucker in the slot for a trembucker.
 
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ItsaBass said:
What exactly won't fit? It should be no problem fitting a humbucker in the slot for a trembucker.
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The holes for the screws are directly in the body. The trembuckers are wider, so the screws for normal humbuckers won't reach.
 
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Catanduva said:
The holes for the screws are directly in the body. The trembuckers are wider, so the screws for normal humbuckers won't reach.
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Sure they will. The difference is minor, and the legs can easily be bent to reach. I bend humbucker legs all the time in order to fit them to various guitar. For instance, I double folded the long legs of the '57 Classic in my SG in order to fit it into the neck pickup slot.
 
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ItsaBass said:
Sure they will. The difference is minor, and the legs can easily be bent to reach. I bend humbucker legs all the time in order to fit them to various guitar. For instance, I double folded the long legs of the '57 Classic in my SG in order to fit it into the neck pickup slot.
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Seriously? Man, you saved my life. Now i have far more choices to make.
I knew that you can do some "adaptations" to make them fit, but i thought it would be hard.
 
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Yeah, mang. You just need to make your pickup "do the splits" a little bit. And you will probably want shims to adjust the height as well.

You can bend the legs by hand, but probably not the short areas through which the screws pass. You can do those with a pair of regular pliers, but sheet metal pliers are even better:

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And you could also always just put an extra pair of holes in the bottom of the pickup cavity. No harm in that IMO.
 
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