Bare Knuckle pickup suggestion for swamp ash Jazzmaster

[bugsbunny]

I am planning to have a luthier build a guitar for me from Warmoth materials and here’s the spec:

Body: chambered Jazzmaster body from swamp ash with a non-tremolo fix bridge
Neck: maple neck with rosewood fretboard

I want a single coil in neck and a humbucker in bridge and look for the following characteristics:

Single coil in neck:

Clean tone: very soft and clean for pop, R&B, fusion, and jazz. I do not want something that sounds harsh with too much treble.

Distortion: preferably can do a typical Guns N' Roses solo, but I am willing to trade off for clean sound if need to compromise.

Humbucker in bridge:

Distortion: full, thick, and fat with lots of clarity. I do not care about the clean sound here.

In addition, I want the sound to be very 3 dimensional (for the lack of better description); I’ve been playing some Ibanez Prestige RG types guitar with Dimarzio PAF in neck and Super Distortion in bridge – while they sound great, I always feel the tone is “2 dimensional” and “flat” even compared to a much cheaper Gibson SG or Schecter super strat, so I am not sure if that’s an Ibanez problem or pickup problem.

I mainly play pop, fusion, rock, alternatives and grunge. For examples, Oasis, Garbage, Alanis Morissette, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains. I am not looking to clone any of the tone; just want a good sounding guitar that can get close enough to have fun.

Let me know your suggestion!

[Telerocker]

When I look at the timbers, I would go Crawler in the bridge and Slowhand in the neck. The Crawler is fat, thick, juicy and keeps balls above the 12th fret. The topend is round but not dull and you can set the pickupheight to taste. The Crawler cleans up and splits very nice. It has a unique growl when pushed. The Slowhand is quite fat for a single coil, but that's what you're after when I read your message right.

[stratguy23]

The specs won’t be identical to your guitar, but I built a super Strat (alder body single locking Floyd Rose maple neck). In it, I put an Irish Tour neck and Holy Diver bridge to cover styles similar to yours. I’m still dialing the guitar in, but I am happy so far. I wired a 4-way switch and a 3-way toggle for the bridge humbucker, so it is a really versatile set up. I have a Crawler in another super Strat (ash body double locking Floyd Rose) that guitar is very bright inherently, and the Crawler did tame the top end some without losing cut. The Holy Diver is kind of like a more aggressive Crawler. Crawler is more 70s blues hard rock while the Holy Diver is more 80s. I think either would work, but I might lean more towards the HD for your case.