Pickups & Other Parts

Some of the other parts have shown up along with the pickups.  For pups I ended up ordering a set of handwound Keystones from Bill Lawrence.  After reading several stellar reviews on the keystones I decided that was what I was wanting out a pickup.  There are a lot of different botique level handwound pickups to choose from.  There are some things that dislike about standard type telecaster pups ( even some vintage re-issues).

1.  They can sound thin and undimensional

2.  NOISE!  Hum noise on most vintage style pups is just annoying.

3.  Overly Bright.

With the keystones they are supposed to have none of those negative attributes.  I will post a review after I get some time on them.

Other parts I went with a white – black – white pickguard,  Wilkinson brass compensated bridge, and various misc. parts.  I ordered a 4 way switch for it to be able to run the pups in series.  guitarpartsresource.com sent out a 5 way switch instead.  I have emailed them about it 2x and called 2x. Still no answer or reply so I may have to order it else where.

I ordered some Kluson tonepro vintage tuners.  They are back ordered, so have to wait it out for those.

Just waiting on the switch so I can wire it all up and the tuners and it will be ready.