I went with the Brown Sugars as I've found with all the effects available today. I'm finding I like to go no hotter than warm vintage in my guitars. I'm a blues, classic rock kind of guy, so I use a lot of clean tones. These PUPs will sound jazzy, country clean. But really growl with an OD pedal. It's all Warmoth, I bought the stuff on the Christmas sale. I finished the neck with rattle can nitro. The body was already finished. The pickup mounting came about because I bought the pickguard from Warmoth, it had the holes, and Tim supplied the screws, and I thought I'd try it, it makes it so much easier to set pickup height. As always with BKP, everything I needed was in the box.