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I checked out a couple of sites on this new type of pup and the ones I found were for bass only, is this true? From what I found they're described as reproducing the natural sound of strings/wood etc with no colouring of the tone whatsoever. While this may be acceptable for bassists it may not be so good for guitarists. Maybe that's why I couldn't find any for guitars? We use different pups on our axes in order to achieve a particular tone that we want, Vintage,JB, distortion, single coils,humbuckers etc etc Another thought is that these optical pups would highlight shortcomings in cheaper instruments so that you could only use them on axes made of quality timber etc whereas conventional replacement pups would help to shroud and/or enhance the crappy tone of a guitar made of inferior timbers. I guess this applies to basses as well. A Squire "P" bass can be made to sound a lot more like a MIA Fender "P" bass if you install pups by Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio etc etc . If you install one of these new optical pups then the Squire "P" bass might sound even less like the real thang, dig?

I've had a Les Paul custom for a couple of years. I bought it second hand and it had a large area of the back where the finish was totally scraped off down to bare mahogany (the old belt buckle trick) I thought I'd take the rest of the paint off so that I could refinish it properly. Being an impatient goose I got the sander out which took the remaining paint off along with a small amount of mahogany, (two 1/16th inch deep & 1 inch long indentations) DOH! I've tried a couple of wood fillers but they didn't seem to dry to a hard enough finish so that when I attempted to sand them back they crumbled away. Is there a product around that can be sanded back successfully and also match the original mahogany so that it's not noticeable after it's been stained and laquered? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. edit=corrected the tags