I own the Black beauty and found it "wanting" That missing piece was obvious to me that a push-pull CTS should have been installed allowing ability to add middle PU out put to either bridge selected position or the neck selected position. Easy mod to accomplish requiring only a new CTS bridge control pot with a push-pull feature. The middle PU is wired to it.. and provides a better control of tone output. No other hardware is necessary. Rewiring required i is minimal.. using the standard wiring diagram of a Gibson LP with 3 PU's. If one can solder, it's easy to do this mod at an average cost of $12 for a push-pull CTS control to replace the existing bridge tone control. The addition of an in or out capability provides better tone control for blues playing.. that was my motivation. It seems such a no-brainer, I can't understand why OEM version doesn't come with that option.
