RayL wrote:almano wrote:It's interesting to see you're using yours electrically
I'd better own up at this point and tell you that I loved the shape, the build quality, the finish, the colour, the trem and the action, but I was not keen on the sound of the pickups. They are medium-output humbuckers - fine for jazz and soft strumming, but I wanted more 'twang' and output so I replaced them. I wish I could remember off-hand what I replaced them with, but I did mods on several guitars at that time and certainly these replacement had all that I required.
They were a GFS ("Guitar Fetish") model, weren't they, Ray?
They are either the same pickups as, or very similar to, the ones fitted to many Alden guitars, of which I know you have more than one example.
See:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Retrotron-Series_c_99.html
By the way, anyone looking for the DeArmond 200 sound, and who might be tempted by the look of the "GFS Surf 90 Alnico II Rockabilly Pickups": be warned.
They look similar, but those screws don't adjust the bar magnets up and down (which is the case with the genuine DeArmonds). The screws are just a rudimentary polepiece adjustment method (the screws themselves being the adjustable poles).
JN