I got a Frank Hartung Junico a few weeks ago (NGD now well overdue) - it’s been owned by a number of forum members according to google. It’s fantastic but came with a ridiculously overwound bridge HB and a great neck P90. Being somebody who would mess around with the pickups on a 59 Les Paul, I of course started tinkering.
The problem - it now has a Monty’s PAF in the bridge, and the original Haussel P90 in the neck. They’re both great, but totally mismatched (bridge is significantly weaker). I can’t decide which to replace. How to decide?
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Acquired a Strat this week, main reason I was interested as it came with OC pickups. Fk me man, how do you do it ? Riot act in the neck and Beano in the bridge, five way switch and some of the best tones I ever heard in all positions.
"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
If you liked the bridge, I think you might have described the neck as "significantly hotter".
But I might be reading too much into it. Also I like mismatched pickups. They give you somewhere to go.
I’ll do some photos of my own at some point but they’ll be terrible as usual. I’m slightly leaning towards keeping the P90 and flogging the Monty’s, mainly because I guess with a hotter bridge it opens up half decent coil tapping options. Usually I strongly prefer one or the other though and I’m a big fan of both these- if only they were close to matched
I might be alone but I generally prefer a P90 at the bridge, and an HB at the neck.
"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
And interestingly my own Blackbird ... It's interesting that I designed that for technical Metal musicians ...which was definitely the area Jason was heading for before his sad illness.
If anyone has not seen the fantastic documentary film 'Not Dead Yet' about Jason's fight to still continue with his music ... it's well worth a look. My apologies for a derail ... but Jason's story is both shattering and uplifting.
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