Jackson / DiMarzio Pickup Observations:

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Jackson uses single screw eyelet for ground. I added a strip of copper tape - with conductive adhesive - that comes up on both sides to contact the .015" aluminum RFI shield on the back.of the pickgusrd.
 
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Final pickguard installation....no new holes drilled. Bottom tone is for bridge. Middle tone is shared between middle and neck.
 
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AFTER:

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Wow....I had no idea these 15 year old GFS pickups could sound this good.

The singles are close to the strings but do not give the wolftones produced by the Jackson's- most likely due to GFS abandoning the stupid and utterly ridiculous fascination with what magnet stagger Leo Fender used in the 1950's that still infects the guitar world to this day.

These GFS Tru-Coil prototypes sound like a Fender Stratocaster, except for the noise. The 10k in the middle and 7k in the neck blend well together. The parallel conjoined 0.01uf box-type capacitors are amazing, giving full useable range of the shared middle/neck tone control and never get muddy.

The bridge pickup has more upper mid range and clarity than the Dimarzio DP100. It seems hotter, although it has less ohms, coming in at only 13.5k. It's a much more cutting tone and yet more articulate, especially clean, but the best part is zero magnetic pull on the strings, which the Dimarzio was doing. The bridge tone control is what Leo should have done all along.

I dont think I could be more pleased....and surprised!!!
 
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The cream color pickups look so much better.
I like the black, red, black guard too. Subtle but classy with the black & white.
It's now a proper "SuperStrat".
 
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