ricardoblue
Junior Member
My ’66 Starfire III apparently has original pickups, which I gather are vintage “Anti-Hum” PUs. I suspect that much of the reason I love this guitar has to do with these pickups. My style of playing is flatpicking with a lot of single-note / arpeggiating mixed in. The clarity / definition of the single notes on this guitar is outstanding; it makes all my other guitars sound kinda dull and lifeless. I have a number of nice guitars (the exact number shall remain hidden even though I’m not married), but the more I play this Starfire, the less I want to play anything else. I know that all humbuckers are not created equal. So my odd question is this: would pickups like these (say, the LB-1’s available on the Guild website) give another guitar this heavenly sound? (I’m playing through a slightly modded old Fender tube amp, but that’s another conversation; no guitar sounds as good as this Starfire through this or any other amp I’ve played them through.) I’m considering putting new LB-1’s into an already-modded Epiphone Dot (semi-hollow), for example, since it’s already a Franken-guitar. How ‘bout a solid-body guitar? Would LB-1’s retain / express their mojo in a solid body?
Part of my motivation is to save the wear & tear of constant rehearsing / gigging with this precious old instrument . . . but I. Must. Have. This. Sound. The alternative, I guess, would be to swap out entire guitars and try one of the reissue Starfires.
I just found GAD’s deep dive into the worlds of Starfire III and these pickups. (Thanks!) Anyone else have thoughts?
Thanks!
Part of my motivation is to save the wear & tear of constant rehearsing / gigging with this precious old instrument . . . but I. Must. Have. This. Sound. The alternative, I guess, would be to swap out entire guitars and try one of the reissue Starfires.
I just found GAD’s deep dive into the worlds of Starfire III and these pickups. (Thanks!) Anyone else have thoughts?
Thanks!