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Having grown up in Kalamazoo, I've experienced a lot of claims about what makes the difference in a good sound and have known several people who designed and built pickups on a larger scale. Many of you have heard many opinions also. Decades later these observations keep pouring in. A couple of days ago a long standing friend suggested a set of strings that made a big difference. I can only conclude that for many of us this tonequest has no end. I have been humbled several times when I was unhappy with the sound of a set up or pickup only to hand the guitar to someone very good and was amazed at the tone. My impression of Schallers is that they are decent. The tilt engineering is clever. Here's a relevant video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mURVofPTnY&t=222s I'll venture briefly into another realm- the Strat. I have one with the original pickups and a David Gilmour EMG set. There is a huge difference that to me is worth the investment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozl28iKM0E

Let us know how much of a difference the Benedetto pickup makes vs the Schaller. It should be a pretty big change given the difference in the winding.

I would guess they were lost during one of the upgrades, maybe 5 years ago. As I recall, there was a system crash that had to do with a duplicate alias naming of gallery files. Been a good while now and the files were not able to be recovered.

Very, very nice!

Can't pull up photos of my 6 heritage guitars in my members gallery. Kind of blacked out. Are they lost forever?

Arrived Thursday. Gorgeous and plays beautifully. Played it for a couple of days now. Took it to my luthier to install a Benedetto B-6 (built in version of Benedetto’s S-6 floating pickup). I love this pickup and i think it will suit this guitar beautifully to bring out a little more acoustic voice. Especially since this model has only a neck pickup so it retains a little more of that woody/acoustic vibe. Deserves to be heard that way. Feedback is definitely a bigger issue with the single pickup and all solid woods, but part of the allure of this one was that it came with custom Doug’s Plugs for the F holes. A little less acoustic feeling with those in, but feedback is not an issue. Very excited to get it back from the shop this week.

Thanks man!

Looks awesome and sounds great!

Thanks man!

Thanks Tim!! I opted to leave the back and rim alone. I was trying to keep the cost of the project down.

Beautiful silver burst!! Did you have the back/sides buffed at all?

Someone is going to be real happy with this refin. Nice job.

Really sorry to read this. R.I.P. and condolences to his family.

Came out great Brent! Love the look of this one!

Wheeewwww!!! Holy crap!! Wiring a holow body guitar SUCKS!!! Lol. I tell ya what though, it was well worth it! What was a half-ass refinish, is now a classy, respectable tone machine. The guitar still has great tone and superb playability, but now it looks beautiful!!! Dave did a wonderful job on refinishing the top…factory quality. Granted, the rest of the body is still the matte black finish, but it actually goes well with the Silverburst. Aside from re installing the electronics, everything went back together super easy. I had to re condition the fretboard (because of taping off the fretboard). Then installed a new set of GHS 9s and she was ready to rock!!!

I got the guitar back from Dave today!! OMG It’s absolutely gorgeous!!! Ok….time to go fishing. Lol

Just spotted these Lollar Gold Foil ….they may be just the ticket. https://www.lollarguitars.com/lollar-gold-foil-pickups/gold-foil-surface-mount

beauty, those schaller's are the same a sd 59s, real good pickups.. they love the a2 magnet swap if you want that fingerpad articulation,,..

Thanks much. I’ve heard good things about them. I have Lollar Imperials in most of my guitars. Terrific design and sound. Just ran across Tom Brantley Rewind pickups….anyone tried one of these? Looks like a specific attempt at what I’m talking about: https://tombrantleyrewinds.com/newpickups/dearmond-style-goldfoil-in-humbucker-size

Lollar has a Charlie Christian in a humbucker sized package. I installed one in my Nocaster and love it. I’ve heard clips of them in arch tops and they sound very old school.