WilmerTheWhite

Interesting stuff. Since these pickups are named Burstbucker 61s, I just wanted to chime in, because I for many years have played a Les Paul SG made in 1961. Thing is that when I had to clean the old PAF pickups a while ago, I noticed that the neck pickup had a short dark magnet and the bridge pickup a long more greyish magnet. It seems that they have put an alnico V in the neck and an alnico II in the bridge. Don’t know if I’m right though, but it sounds quite logical to get a more solid bass in the neck and smoother highs in the bridge. Seems that people at Gibson had quite good understanding of how to create good sounds already back then, because I have spoken to other people who say that they have a PAF in the bridge and a PAT in the neck of their early -60s Gibsons. Perhaps an SG -61 RI should sound great with that magnet combination too?