Pickups for new Flying v

[Antihero]

Ok, so i just put together a maple bodied bolt on neck Flying v. I had not planned on doing it but i was looking around on ebay and i stumbled across a v body that i ended up winning for 28 bucks. Anyway i put it together with parts that i had around here and the pickups that i had were humbuckers from a Saga LP kit. They sound bad, the neck is extremley muddy and the neck is shrill but very powerful. What i am looking for is:

1. A vintage type sound that is perhaps a little hotter.
2. Preferably an Alnico 5 magnet
3. It must have a nickle plated cover(the guitar has a mirrored pickguard and looks quite good with nicle covered pickups)

Please tell me what pickup would do this for me. I dont care what brand either.Also i should mention that the guitar is wired with 250k pots, so please keep that in mind.

Thank you

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Pickups for new Flying v

I'd get rid of the 250K pots and switch them to 500K. You might find that the muddiness of your existing pickups is because you're throwing away some highs with those 250K pots. If you do want a change of pickups, I'd recommend the alnico 5 Jazz neck or if you want a little more output, the 59N. As for the bridge pickup, a 59B would be my choice...or the Custom or JB if you want something hotter than vintage. Lew

 

[fusion101]

Re: Pickups for new Flying v

59neck and jb bridge

 

[Antihero]

Re: Pickups for new Flying v

I'd get rid of the 250K pots and switch them to 500K. You might find that the muddiness of your existing pickups is because you're throwing away some highs with those 250K pots. If you do want a change of pickups, I'd recommend the alnico 5 Jazz neck or if you want a little more output, the 59N. As for the bridge pickup, a 59B would be my choice...or the Custom or JB if you want something hotter than vintage. Lew

Thank you for responding

I have some 500k pots here also, so i will try that. I know that 250k will kill the highs a bit but this is an all maple guitar with a maple neck and a rosewood fretboard, i wanted to make sure it wasnt too shrill. Also one pickup is muddy and one is too shrill.

Anyway at the moment i am thinking of a Seth Lover in the Neck and a Golden Age overwound from StewMac in the bridge......

 

[Antihero]

Re: Pickups for new Flying v

After reading the info on this site i now see that the Seth Lover has an Alnico II,hmm i liked the soundbite on this site so maybe i should also look at alnico II's....