New... pickups day?
I've had these way longer than the Jazzmaster, so 'new' is a bit misleading. Fate smiled lovingly upon me, and offered up for sale the most desirable guitar pickups I've ever contemplated, but that had been made utterly unaffordable by the exchange rate. There are a lot of different options if you want a Les Paul to sound exactly like it did in the late '50s. But really, screw it and just get Bareknuckle pickups. The best of the best.
In particular, I want the Peter Green alike, P.G. Blues PAF style Bareknuckle humbuckers, and this, dear reader, is what beautiful providence blew my way. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the seller to confirm.
They have the strange squeaky attack that original PAFs had, and that so many imitations fail to deliver. They're airy, complex, and they rock the hell out of my 18 Watt. In the middle position they deliver the classic out-of-phase nasal skronk that Peter Green made so famous due to a pickup repair accident.
This Tokai LS150 was already one of the best Les Pauls ever. Now it's effing stupendous. I adore these pickups. True PAF tone
Oh, I should mention: no wax-potting. I'd heard wild stories of unpotted pickups squealing uncontrollably. But I thought to myself, "The tones I want this guitar to sound like were all played on unpotted PAFs and those people managed fine." And so it turned out to be.
