[jazz_guitar] Seymour Duncan Pickups for Jazz
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ron45@tularosa.net [jazz_guitar]
Hello everyone, been quite an ordeal to get signed in here this time around. Hello to Juan and John Amato if he is still active here.
I got a used archtop from the folks at Heritage Via Wolfe Guitars in Fla. There are issues with the floater. I've been talking with Mike at Herritage [ fine bunch of people as far as I can tell.
They suggested I try to bend the floater's mount and it came loose.... with very minimal prodding by me. I could see there was no room to move with the pick gard in place. This in it's self isn't a big issue. I am thinking about replacing that pickup anyway. For now it would be a neck mount. The guitar was built to satisfy someone who wanted a Johnny Smith model. According to the hype they came as close as they could with out infringing on somebody's turf according to the story. I wanted that particular guitar because of the 1.75 nut and the 25 inch scale. I really liked that idea and had never played on till mine arrived. So that's why I want to ask you guys about pickups. I remember someone [ but sadly not their name ] who often spoke highly of Seymour Duncan pickups. I remember he had an L4 at the time I was hanging around here. I'd like to find out which pickup he was talking about. It would be pretty easy to hang a full sized humbucker there. I lean toward the darker sound of a top mounted humbucker, but Mike and some of the folks at Heritage are not big fans of that idea. I think..... the top is braced with two parallel braces which would not be compromised by putting one there. But if I can find the right neck mount p.u. I could spend more time playing then woodworking. That would be ok too.
Does anyone remember the Seymour Duncan pickup L4 owner was so in favor of? Again I apologize.
p.s. I'm still not a jazzer and still can't compose a brief post.
Ron
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'J. Vega' JVegaTrio@aol.com [jazz_guitar]
Hello everyone, been quite an ordeal to get signed in here this time around. Hello to Juan and John Amato if he is still active here.
I got a used archtop from the folks at Heritage Via Wolfe Guitars in Fla. There are issues with the floater. I've been talking with Mike at Herritage [ fine bunch of people as far as I can tell.
They suggested I try to bend the floater's mount and it came loose.... with very minimal prodding by me. I could see there was no room to move with the pick gard in place. This in it's self isn't a big issue. I am thinking about replacing that pickup anyway. For now it would be a neck mount. The guitar was built to satisfy someone who wanted a Johnny Smith model. According to the hype they came as close as they could with out infringing on somebody's turf according to the story. I wanted that particular guitar because of the 1.75 n ut and the 25 inch scale. I really liked that idea and had never played on till mine arrived. So that's why I want to ask you guys about pickups. I remember someone [ but sadly not their name ] who often spoke highly of Seymour Duncan pickups. I remember he had an L4 at the time I was hanging around here. I'd like to find out which pickup he was talking about. It would be pretty easy to hang a full sized humbucker there. I lean toward the darker sound of a top mounted humbucker, but Mike and some of the folks at Heritage are not big fans of that idea. I think..... the top is braced with two parallel braces which would not be compromised by putting one there. But if I can find the right neck mount p.u. I could spend more time playing then woodworking. That would be ok too.
Does anyone remember the Seymour Duncan pickup L4 owner was so in favor of? Again I apologize.
p.s. I' m still not a jazzer and still can't compose a brief post.
Ron
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Chris Smart csmart8@cogeco.ca [jazz_guitar]
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>other instruments as well.
Chris
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