I think the McFeely 454 is getting some new pickups this week...

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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I put some brass saddles on it this week to try and tame the spikiness. The guitar sounds beautiful acoustically but I think the mistake I made was not realizing that many of the korina guitars that I like had alnico II pickups in them, and not the alnico V like the Suhr DSV's that I have in it now. I was thinking of trying the Suhr Thornbucker II but they only have them with chrome covers and I'm not sure they'd fit in the body. I have good luck with the DUncan Antituities in my strats and the '59 in my Les Paul so I figured the Alnico Pro II were a good choice. The slash version seems to have less low end so I went with the original flavor. I'll report back next week. The Music Lilly saddles are great, btw: https://amzn.to/4hd2rLd





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I hope the pup swap works out. If it still ends up with spikiness after the swap, you could look at tweaking the potentiometer values. As an example, a 500k ohm pot in the volume will make a pup sound brighter than a 400k ohm pot. You could lower the values of all the tone and volume pots to tame the pups. There is a way to alter a 500k pot, with added parts, so that it will, effectively, operate like a pot with a lower value.
 
Mark Wein said:
My buddy Scott turned me on to them. I hadn't known of them until just last week.
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I've used them for some things like pickguards, pickup screws, tools, and some other odds and ends. Not super high end stuff but decent quality for very reasonable prices. Guyker makes some decent oddball stuff when you need it... like I needed some burnt chrome knobs and hardware to match my burnt chrome Floyd Rose stuff.
 
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