Alnico Blackhawk bridge, Manhattan neck

[jorgercrosa]

There you have it. They would be going into a custom telecaster, thick mahogany body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard.

I aim to achive jazzy tones from bridge and neck, and get heavier tones on the bridge if needed.

Actually, the Blackhawk is a spare neck going into the bridge slot, whistle the Manhattan is a bridge I scored for cheaps going into the neck slot, so I think outputwise I am not going too far off.

Other options are pairing the Manhattan in the neck with a Godwood in the bridge, and putting the Blackhawk neck on the bridge of a walnut/maple baritone tele tuned to Ab.

Although it seems my mind is set, money is tight, so if you guys see a problem I am missing, I'll drop the idea and try to sell the Blackhawk neck. The Manhattan is staying though. :-)

Let me hear your thoughts, fine gentlemen!

[darrenw5094]

Soooo, you are putting a BKP bridge pup in the neck and a BKP neck pup in the bridge postition? 

Interesting to hear the results, i wonder will the volume balance ok.

[jorgercrosa]

Hey Darren!

Actually I have already done it! Accidentally I had a Holydiver bridge (which I got in a trade from someone who thought it was a Cold Sweat neck) on the neck spot, with a Cold Sweat bridge on the bridge hehehe

The guitar was the same custom telecaster, tuned to B. The holydiver was just awesome for clean chords, really full! My setup on all guitars is 2 volume knobs and no tones, so the best application for the Holydiver bridge/neck was when I blended a little bit of volume from both pickups, adding or removing the extra ooomph from the neck position. The context was mostly Death Metal riffing in the vein of Gorguts, but I realized it would really excell in modern rock territory.

[jorgercrosa]

Another thing to consider is something Tim mentioned before: as long as you set the pickup height just right, all is fair when balancing bridge and neck pickups. Actually he said in much better words, but you get the idea.

I found out a pickup shootout on soundcloud in which the Blackhawk neck was used on the bridge. Looks pretty good to me, at least for the application I had in mind mind.

https://www.soundcloud.com/thatsoundswhammy/sets/pickup-comparison-shootout