![]() ![]() YES, indeed, adjust the pole pieces! Not quite the way you suggested, though. "If you pull out the screws (or poles.) of that pickups, a la Wide Range, you can get them sound much better, even like wicked Dynasonics or weak filtertrons, to me is an improvement" SO! If you find an oldie but a goodie, be sure that you examine the binding, it's a common issue. HOWEVER, his guitar is suffering from the binding deterioration that plagues so many of these guitars. In response to his request for more usable tonal variations, I replaced the "mud switch" cap values with a. One more note: I have a customer with a mid-sixties Country Gentleman that I have worked on a few times. Just for giggles, I call this my " Urban Ruffian." I guess this doesn't answer your Country Gentleman quest, but it does illustrate that some swaps can be easily done. Comparing the two, when I ran the GFS pickups in coil shunt (installed on p/p when I did the swap), the tone was quite similar - couldn't pick one or the other out in the mix. Those pickups were dropped from the GFS line and not available for many years, but they have a new version out now - looks similar, don't know about the sound.Īt that time, I also had a Baldwin-era Double Anniversary with Hilotrons. ![]() The pickups came with humbucker-sized mounting rings that made them practically a drop-in replacement for the Epi humbuckers. Epi Sheraton II, swapped the gold for chrome hardware, added a Bigsby and a roller bridge, and a set of GFS Nashville Retro-trons (same as Artec MVH6, I'm sure). ![]()
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