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You should go to a shop that has a guitar with a 3 pup setup, of any kind, and play it. Some people find the 3rd or "middle" pup is too bothersome to their strumming and picking. They say: "It gets in the way." I have a couple guitars with 3 pup setups and it doesn't bother me, but you should definitely check it out first before you route your LP.

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as i can see by your name (def leppard) you want to have your guitar like steve clark's les paul custom.

i will give you some ideas of pickups you can drop to sound like him:

on his black les paul custom, he used a dirty fingers bridge position

on his deluxe, he used seymour duncan 59's

and on his other les pauls he used original gibson '59 PAFs.

 

i would suggest:

neck (seymour duncan '59)

middle/centre (seymour duncan '59)

bridge (gibson dirty fingers)

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You should go to a shop that has a guitar with a 3 pup setup' date=' of any kind, and play it. Some people find the 3rd or "middle" pup is too bothersome to their strumming and picking. They say: "It gets in the way." I have a couple guitars with 3 pup setups and it doesn't bother me, but you should definitely check it out first before you route your LP.

 

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That is why I don't like Fender Stats, among other things...

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Middle pickup NEVER gets in my way on a Fender.

Plenty of room between them.

 

On a Les Paul, it's a pain in the ***.

 

That being said, I have my eye on a couple Les Pauls with 3 pickups.

Probably buy a skinny pickup ring for the middle one and drop it down inside.

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the sweetest sound comes from my les paul ( 76 Custom with 3 original pup) with the bridge and middle together. nothing I have found sounds like it!!!

 

You're a lucky man.

I'd love ta own a 3 pup Lp. Why...good question - they just look so damn cool. Kinda like a Big Ol' Thunderbird or Chevy Impala.

And besides Ace Frehley played one' date='so that's just fine for me.Sold.

 

That is why I don't like Fender Stats, among other things...

 

Understand where you're comin' from mate. But... never let that be a detterent. Strat's are a different beast but worth taming.B)

 

Have heard that disagreement all my 30 playing years and have seen(myself including)everyone fall by the wayside.B)

 

I can bet on it that you will too:-$ .

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