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Part of the joy of Rickenbacker is their unique, eccentric, construction ideas. The pickups are no exception. Their innards sometimes look as if they came off Noah's Ark. They really can be that primitive. Of course, we forgive them for the unique, eccentric sounds.
Alegree makes a WRHB type pickup in the regular humbucker size.
Part of the jangle from old Fender Telecaster Custom and Deluxe guitars came courtesy of 1 Meg control pots.
In the case of the Fender Player Jaguar, it would probably be easier to extract jangly tones from the bridge position humbucker by applying a dedicated Bass Cut "strangle" switch.
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If you want bright jangle from an ES Thinline, try Oil City Winterizer II pickups.
https://www.creamery-pickups.co.uk/custom-handwound-pickups-from-the-creamery/custom-handwound-replacement-ric-rickenbacker-and-toaster-style-pickups.html#rickenbacker
I found no PAF-sized option on The Creamery website. This could be my fault. The navigation on there is unusual.
Hard to know how much of the vintage "jingle jangle" sound was the early "toaster" pickups, how much was RIC woodworking and how much was the recording studio technology?
Certainly, the Jim/Roger McGuinn twelve string sound came chiefly from direct injection recording via two Teletronix LA-2A Levelling Amplifier compressors linked in series.
Unless you are confident about performing this task, budget for at least an hour of guitar tech's time. Add £170 for Creamery pickups. This is a fairly hefty sum to venture on G.A.S.
One possible short cut is to modify a pre-owned Epiphone BB King Lucille. This has a rear control cavity access cover plate. Changing pickups is only slightly more fiddly than on a Les Paul. You will need a narrow soldering iron tip to work on the PCB.
So my opinion is that putting Rickenbacker pickups in a different type of guitar won't sound very much like one, even if they're actual Rick pickups rather than something of roughly the same magnet type/coil wind which fits a different format.
Which reminds me, I don't have a Rickenbacker guitar at the moment... I probably need to do something about that! I do have a 4001 bass, with a 'Toasterbucker' in the neck and a Kent Armstrong Firebird-type pickup in the 'bridge' position - and it sounds just like a Rick.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Ironically, the best blend for this effect was usually NHT RIC with the bridge position pickup of a Fender Jaguar.
* CORRECTIONS CORNER
It's a 230, not the posher 260. Accidental boasting.
That would explain why Funkfingers’ 260 sounds like a Rick, and also why almost all copies and Rick-a-likes don’t. And why they still sound distinctive unplugged - which they do.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yeah I can imagine that- doesn't Eric Johnson say something similar about vintage Strat necks? He can fret certain chords with one finger for two strings (not a barre) I think because of the narrow nut width.
Having decent approximations to things like WRHBs, Filtertrons, Gold Foils and the like in “standard” footprints and mounting formats is brilliant because it facilitates this kind of experimentation without resorting to woodwork so if somebody out there has a suitable donor and doesn’t mind spending the money I’d love to see/hear how it turns out but yeah, absolutely got to be realistic with expectations, and my expectations would not include instant Rick classic tones…
Obviously it may need shimming, or extra room for magnets depending on the depth of the P-90 route
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