What Pickups for a Flying V

[ChurchHill]

That's awesome! It really is amazing how a few little adjustments can make a world of difference. I'm with you on the top-wrap, too. I tried it once and it just wasn't for me. Makes me wonder how someone like Billy Gibbons can get away with top-wrapping such light strings, but hey, it works for him. Me, not so much.

 

[harddriver]

Yes those V have very particular ergonomics for sure; I started on classical so that may have helped me feel comfortable with them even sitting down
Makes you appreciate the way Michael Schenker plays, makes so much sense with these guitars.



The T-Tops are not the original ones, they are actually older (late 60’s / early 70’s Pat# stickers). The guitar had Duncan antiquities when I got it.
Yes I also love the original Gibson PAF/PAT# pickups, and good replicas; probably my overall preferred humbuckers, unless I feel the need to get something « special » / different in a particular guitar.
I’m curious about how an old Duncan hot rodded PAF like the original custom would sound in that guitar, I have the late 80’s / 90’s Schenker in mind for that.
But it’s about perfect now with the early T-Tops to be honest, not sure I want to mess with that; it’s more of the 70’s / early 80’s Schenker

Yes that amp I was playing on the last 2 photos is a ´67 / early ´68 50w Trem; had a few tweaks, sounds and feels fantastic, very balanced amp, a real benchmark to me in how an old classic NMV 50w Marshall sounds.
I have a ‘72 too, I think it was on the first photo of the V I shared earlier in this thread (next to the Park 75); that amp is a firebreather, so much more gain and a fantastic liquid lead tone. It sounds like it’s modded but is dead stock and really clean.
The ‘71 small box that is next to the 50w trem is a bass modded to lead and kind of in the middle, with more of an aggressive edgy character.
And the Park 75 is its own thing with the KT88.

Funny how so similar amps can sound and feel so different.
That’s why you can’t have only one

I just remember something about Tim Shaws and back then we all wanted more output so I may not have appreciated what I was hearing.

 

[Anje]

Haha those were the days I’m not really crazy about those 80’s Tim Shaw “PAF” pickups to be honest, never chased them.
I much prefer the older Gibson pickups for that classic PAF/PAT# tone, including any T-Top variant, or modern good replicas of them; especially we have so many good options available new now, that often are much more consistent than old original PAF (not even talking about the crazy $$).
Btw consistency is another great thing old T-Top have, never had a “bad/meh” one. Old PAF could be all over the place.

The hot rodded PAF / humbucker is another story and a damn deep rabbit hole / black hole?