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so it really needs to be there?
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is this stuff important, or hard to remove. my plan is to take apart some strat pups and cut holes in the guitar for the pole bits to go
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that is an absolute effort. well done. amazing for a first project.
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I'd replace the pots first then - that's where the scratchy is probably coming from - and leave the p'ups alone, see how that sounds first. If it still doesn't suit you, See about getting the pickups re-wound - you might be able to get a different sound out of them, while still keeping the look stock, and not putting any more holes in the thing. Of course, it's your guitar and you're free to do what you want to it, but if it was mine, I'd want to keep it looking as close to original looking as possible. yeah thanks, i think ill clean the pots first, it plays beautifuly unpluged, but the pups arnt great, it just seems the tone pots have almost no effect. im not going to cut new holes.. and there are no modern pups in the world that will fit these ones..
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+1 Although it looks like the pickups are surface-mounted? You might be able to find toaster pickups to fit the guitar something like this or this. Or better yet this one. But I have a set of toaster tops with middle screw holes--something like that might retrofit the guitar's existing screw holes. Just seems like a shame to cut up a guitar that's made it this long without any mods. yeah thanks for all your help, well almost no mods.. it has a new tailpiece, new tuners.. which some bastard put on which made new screw holes. ^^ about the selectro its a 4 way, off, 1, 2, 1 and 2. I was thinking about toaster pickups, as i do not want to make the holes bigger... and they look/sound great. All the electrics need replacing cos theyre scratchy.
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Hi there, im new to this forum and i just wanted to ask some advice. I have beautiful old eko 335 style guitar, it was made in 1965, and unfortunatley the vox pickups and all the electrics are crap. Here is a picture of it now. larger full pic: http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/Luc...s/HPIM1626a.jpg Has anyone replaced pickups on an archtop.. it would probably require new holes. I was thinking about mini humbuckers. Thanks.