There can be a few reasons why you would change the pickups on your guitar. Noise problems, looks, replacing dead pickups. But usually the reason you change them is for the tone and sound differences.
I'm a serial pickup changer. I only have two of the 6 or 7 or so guitars I regularly play that has factory pickups in. There is something about one of them them that just works, and the other is from 1979 and has famed Ibanez/Maxxon super 80 pickups which sound awesome.
Choosing which ones is a minefield, because usually the sound you hear in your head is hard to replicate, and opinions and reviews are hard to go by because of taste being so subjective, and the strange need guitarists have to be different, yet always searching for a certain tone no one ever finds.
Anyway onto the actual post for today, I was going to take picture of a pickup swap and post them up here, but I then remembered that the mighty Seynour Duncan himself has some very good vids that should cover most solid body electric.
The first is the Les Paul which should cover any Superstrats or front mounted pickups too
And the second one here is for Pickguard mounted electronics.
I haven't yet put one up for hollow body or semi hollow bodies because I have a 70's epiphone casino I need a full electronics and rebuild which I will post pics while doing it and post up here.
Hope this gives you a bit more guidance and confidence about changing the pickups in your guitar.
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