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- Which exact versions of Gibson Burstbucker are currently in use?
- What sort of sounds the guitar is expected to produce?
- Budget.
Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups are nice but pricey. The Saturday Night Special and Whole Lotta Humbucker pairs are both interesting in their own way. An open bobbins SHPG-1N Pearly Gates or an SH-1N '59 with an Alnico 4 bar magnet and the metal cover would do me nicely for the neck position.I have these in a 349 and love them. As in the above thread they aren’t available as separates but they give a very big difference over my burstbucker LP (even discounting the body difference). Low output!
I guess the latest set of BB
looking for rock and roll but different character to the BB....sort of a thing
no matter
Preferably single coil ones.
There have always been three variants. BB1 = underwound, BB2 = "regular" and BB3 = overwound. The more recent versions gain the suffix Pro and a magnet change from Alnico 2 to Alnico 5. (Big clue, there!)
Magnet swapping should do that. A4 for the neck position and Un-Oriented Alnico 5 for the bridge position.
Unsolder the covers (aka ‘the tricky bit’) and then try going up from the Al II mags you have. When you’re happy, you’re you can choose to re-solder the covers.
If you flip the magnet by accident, so much the better..
For the price of a set of Duncan’s, you can by 2 of every magnet going
He uses a p90 bobbin but just trims the ends of the plastic to fit under the cover
The result is so good I’m thinking of repeating that with a les Paul.