pickups for Washburn

[sleazydream]

Hi, my first post here...

My problem is following: I have a hollowbody Washburn guitar (probably made in the 70s, there is no serial # or anything) similar to this HB15

http://www.pulseonline.com/washburn/HB15TS.jpg

The guitar plays fine and you can even get in tune at times but the pickup sucks. It has too much low end and the tone pot is kinda useless also. Now what I'd like to know is that which pickup would be the best for this kind of a guitar (it has only the neck pickup)?

Other thing that confuses me selecting the right pickup is that it's screwed right to the neck with two screws each side (I hope someone knows what I'm explaining here) and I've never seen anything alike but I guess SD has pickups with that kind of mounting option also.

anyway, any help is appreciated.

 

[Toenail-Tommy]

Re: pickups for Washburn

Hmm, hard to tell what kind of mounting system it would be from the (lookalike) pic. As for choice of replacement pick up: It looks like a MiniHumbucker type is in there at the moment. That guitar looks like a Jazzy kind of affair. It's not nylon strung (looking at that bridge), if so then be careful what you buy. Nylons use completely different "pick-ups", they are acoustic guitars. But assuming that yours is a jazz-box guitar, then you have to ask....what kind of sound am i going for?

Be wary of putting in a high-gain pickup, and then cranking the amp for face-melting mega-distortion riffology. Make sure the axe has a solid center block like the gibson 335 and similar. If not it will be a feedback generator of note.

But if it's that jazzy mellow tone you want, how bout a nice mini-bucker or P-90 (beware gain) or do the proper thing with a duncan http://www.d-tar.com/ac_arch.shtml

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: pickups for Washburn

From your description, It seems like it has a floating pickup of some sort. DeArmond used to produce these, and some modern manufacturers carry them now. Duncan makes a line for Benedetto that might be worth looking into. I think the model you are looking for would be the S6.

 

[sleazydream]

Re: pickups for Washburn

From your description, It seems like it has a floating pickup of some sort. DeArmond used to produce these, and some modern manufacturers carry them now. Duncan makes a line for Benedetto that might be worth looking into. I think the model you are looking for would be the S6.

Yeah, "floating pickup" was the right word I guess.

have to check 'em out