A5 Mahogony body pickup question.

wdelaney72 · Post by **wdelaney72** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:18 am

I've had a few emails with Jeff (High Order) about replacing the bridge pickup in my '81 G&L Strat. This guitar has a mahogony body and ebony fingerboard.

I'm thinking some kind of A5 based humbucker would be best to offset the warmth and darkness of Mahogony. Just for expermentation, I put in a SD Custom Custom (which is A2 14.4K) and as expected, it's farty, dark and just plain bad sounding.

I'd like to go medium or slightly higher output, so I was considering the High Order "Maximums". The other consideration was a hybrid 59/custom with A5 magnets.

I think the hybrid will give me the output I want, I just want to be sure they still clean up OK.

I'll now open the floor for thoughts / advice...

56goldtop · Post by **56goldtop** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:52 am

I don't have any experience of that guitar, but I'm sure Jeff will know what to do if you give him all the details on your preferences. He makes great pickups!

Roe · Post by **Roe** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:51 pm

you can get a little brighter and more detailed sound with mismatched coils. I'd suggest something like 4.8k screw coil and 4k slug coil

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:42 pm

You could swap out the A2 magnet of your Custom Custom for an A5. This will make it sound like a JB, except it will have more bottom and high's as compared to a JB.