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I rather like that idea. Can you guide me to any schematics, etc., for doing that? As noted this was one of the first reissue J160E's so the jack is in the endpin.

I have a 1991 solid-top J160E with a P100 (I posted a while back about some finish issues I'm having on headstock). I bought this guitar because of the Beatle connection (although I didn't fully comprehend at the time the difference between it and the plywood top J160E the Beatles used ... I later had an opportunity to play a Beatle spec J160E and was totally underwhelmed and wouldn't own one unless I was in a Beatles tribute band). I've never done the Pyramid or TI flatwound thing on it simply because this is an actual acoustic guitar made out of good tonewoods, not a plywood guitar, and I didn't want to totally ruin the acoustic sound. I can vouch that you can get an electrified sound out of it with Phosphor Bronze string using the P100, although of course the steel first and second strings were louder, so I screwed the pole pieces on those as far down as I could get them to compensate. I've been using either GHS White Bronze magnetically active strings or DR Zebra (alternating bronze and nickel plated steel windings) to try to balance out the sound, which is OK electrically but less satisfactory acoustically. Honestly, even after owning this guitar all these many years, I'm still not pleased with the sound (although through setup work it's a great player, which is why I've never gotten rid of it). I'm now to the point where I want to do something different with this guitar. I would like to have an undersaddle pickup installed, which would have to be connected to a new input jack that would have to be installed in the side of the guitar, or in the endpin area, given that my particular guitar is the one with the endpin jack for the P-100. Has anyone ever done this? If so, is there a particular pickup that anyone would recommend? And would it be feasible to run separate outputs from each pickup into an A/B box or something to where I'd have the versatility to use the guitar as an acoustic if necessary but also be able to launch the P-100 for "I Feel Fine" or similar sounds? I know the plywood J160E's are the desirable ones because of the Beatle mojo, and I know the solid-top versions are kind of screwy guitars because of the scale length and a pickup setup that's not exactly designed for an acoustic guitar. But I'm sure there are lot of other folks out there like me who own them, and I'd really like some input on what everybody does to try to make these things work.