Yes, but not drastically - if you like super-clean, compressed, bright chickin pickin, then probably - otherwise, I get plenty of twang when I want it. I have an SD Jerry Donahue, a beloved bridge pickup on the TDPRI message board…
Also at my house. Great Tele pickup.
I know, right? What’s so cool is that I had been toying with the idea of assembling my own Parts-o-caster when I found someone’s orphaned one at a local music store for $400. It had $1,200 in parts - including a super-chunky Allparts Tele Fat neck, the Seymour Duncan Phat Cat at the neck, and the type of bridge I wanted. Those were parts I would have picked for my project and together would’ve cost over $400 new. I gave it a once-over and realized why it had been traded in - the neck angle wasn’t right so the whole thing played off.
I offered $300, they took it - I got it home, loosened the strings, popped off the neck, shimmed it with a business card and replaced the neck - 15 minutes, tops. Played great and I was so happy. But I quickly realized I loved the bridge pickup - amazing cleans, but totally responsive to tweaking the knobs - roll off the tone and back the volume off a tad and it thickened up perfectly. I figured out it was a SD-JD and did some research and realized it was a top choice amongst Tele-masters. Who knew?
So the poor shlub who originally assembled the guitar got great parts but didn’t quite know how to bring them together. If he’d gotten a decent setup, it would’ve been a different story. I, on the other hand, got an amazing deal - with parts I wanted and parts I didn’t know I wanted 
- and after swapping in a new body and some better electronic components, I have my main electric to this day.
ETA: Sorry, squeegee; pretty sure you’ve heard that tale before, but it was worth repeating
You guys are mean. I just got the Silvertone’s reverb (sounds awful) and the tremolo (sounds completely awesome) fixed, I have a Bass VI on the way, and I need a pocket amp. Now, I have incredible lust for a pickup.
Just disgraceful.
ETA: And I also have a desire to re-wire the SX tele copy with 500K pots and a .47 cap. Yep, just mean. I could be practicing scales.
Why not replace it with a mini-humbucker? Works fine for me.
As I said, in the mods I have done I replaced the OEM neck pickup with mini-humbuckers and kept the original pots/caps. I was asking about how changing the pots/caps to accomidate a large humbucker neck pickup would effect the sound of the OEM bridge pickup.
I’m imagining if you only flick the selector switch the volume of a large humbucker neck would be louder than that of the OEM bridge, right?
Yeah. We’re just a bunch of miserable bastiches to do this to you. 
How are you going to set up your Bass VI? Like a standard guitar an octave lower, or a standard bass with an extra string on top and bottom?
Yeah, some days, I don’t even know why I open this thread.
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How are you going to set up your Bass VI? Like a standard guitar an octave lower, or a standard bass with an extra string on top and bottom?
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I’m gonna set it up E-e an octave lower than a standard guitar. I expect that the 30" scale won’t let me go much lower with reasonable gauge strings, and if I want to punish my bass amp’s speakers, I’ll get an octave pedal.
So I was showing my son how to play Cream’s version of Born Under a Bad Sign - it has a great hitch in the groove that takes a bit of competence to play - when I had a bit of a realization. It was 35 years ago in July that I got my first guitar, a Yamaha FG-75 for $68 at a pawn shop in Monterey, California. Whoa.
I was just getting a guitar; he’s grooving Albert King. Oy.
I made my “professional” debut today to a captive and unwilling audience, our church congregation. I was attempting to show the kids that it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks. I played a little bit of Folsom Prison Blues in my best Johnny Cash impersonation voice. The audience clapped for me when I was done. It was somewhat intoxicating.
I misread what you said - I thought you’d said you’d done it in the past, possibly to another guitar. It depends on the winding of the humbucker you choose, I’d say. If you find one that’s wound weaker than the bridge pickup you have, you might be able to balance it okay, and you can play with distance from strings to do things okay.
http://www.voxamps.com/guitars/series33/
Got one of these, in a single cutaway, new, Music123, $180. Blackburst.
I was done buying guitars, but how could I turn a deal like that down?
Check this guy playing one.
And let me be the first to congratulate you, Nars.
Hey, Congrats. Getting competent at performing is a huge rush. Good on ya!
Wow, E-Sabbath, I’ve been seeing those on close-out at GC recently. I haven’t plugged one in, but they looked very interesting. I thought I was done with new guitars and basses - I only had severe amp and pedal lust, but have you received yours yet, and do you think it’s totally worth $200?
And Nars, congrats, I can’t recommend playing live enough. Even if you’re aggressively adequate, crowds seem to respond.
Thanks guys. It was really weird. I’ve sung in the choir before but have always had stage fright when it came to singing solo. Somehow, when I was playing my guitar, I didn’t have time (or the mental capacity) to be nervous. It just all came out almost like I had planned it.
The other thing that I did to break the ice and put myself at ease was to have my helper (a 2nd grade girl) strum my guitar while I fingered the E chord. I had secretly hit the “Insane” preset button on my amp to wake everybody up. They got a good laugh out of it and it was a piece of cake from there.
Won’t show till Thursday.
I needed to distract myself while dealing with a few issues, so I drove down to RetroFret in Brooklyn. If I didn’t own a couple of wonderful old archtops I am not prepared to sell or trade, I would be all over this guitar:
1935 Gibson L-7; at the time a more affordable version of their seminal L-5. Light, resonant, heavily played but no structural issues. Plays and sounds wonderful. The back is highly figured maple with a dark walnut stain - there’s a repaired crack on the back that a player loves (reduces sale price while not affecting long-term stability or playability at all). $3,200 - a relative steal.
If I can talk any Dopers into checking this guitar out, well, I would be doing them a favor.
It’s here. It chimes like a bell, even unplugged. The tuners are insanely smooth.
My Egnater is back!! They fixed it! Squeeeeeeeeee! </feedback>
How does the not-P90 sound, Sabs?
Anybody ever visit Guitars 'N Jazz in Summit, N.J.?
Know anything about Palen guitars?