NO SOLDER
Aside from its strings, the most commonly changed bits on any modder’s guitar are invariably the pickups. From just a handful of aftermarket choices back in the 70s, the pickup market has mushroomed to such an extent that you honestly wonder how all these brands survive. Have you ever wondered how many pickups you’ve retrofitted over the years? How many hours (days!) you’ve spent wrestling with wires and solder? Then there’s the dismantling and reassembly time: few classic designs make pickup swapping easy, like a Tele’s bridge pickup, or obviously a thinline semi.
“[In] Gibson’s Quick Connect system the whole electric circuit is modular… quite the future vision”
Earlier this year in issue 448 we auditioned a very forward-looking Relish Eucalypt Mary with its pull out/push in pickup system. A great idea… although you have
