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Originally Posted by rollypolly
Just to follow up on this ...maybe I'm just talking into the wind , but in case someone else reads in the future....I got the Kent Armstrong Jazzy Joe Humbucker and installed it today. It was a pretty easy process . Attaching the pickup to the existing pick guard was the trickiest part. I decided to use super glue and hope that it holds. So far so good.
It sounds better than I expected. Lots of really natural jazz tone. The only downside is that with the pick guard installed it doesn't give me much room to play my fingerstyle picking , so I'll be forced to play traditional jazz style with a pick. The fact that's a temp install using a plastic jack that I attached to the tailpiece, it feels a little fragile. I might consider drilling an end pin jack in the future after seeing how good this humbucker sounds.
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There are others who will see your post, so it is useful.
A valid point about the magnetic pickup; that's a problem for many players. It's too bad that something like the Taylor magnetic can't be used easily. The Taylor has the pole piece magnetic pickups embedded below the fretboard end so they don't present a problem to the fingerstyle player.