Pickups in Edwards ES125

[proflonghair]

Hello all - I bought an Edwards E SA 125 LTS last month on eBay (the cherry red 335), my second Edwards (I used to have a TV yellow LP Jr DC). I love it to bits, but the pickups seem really mismatched to me: the Seymour Duncan SH 2n in the neck does what it says on the tin (Jazz), but the SH14 Custom 5 in the bridge just seems way over the top; the only way I can tame it is by turing the volume down a fair old bit. Is anyone else experiencing similar woes?

 

[Dave_Mc]

i have a custom 5 (i think- never actually checked it, but it's specced as being that) in a charvel star. So yeah, it's probably a bit hot for a semi :lol:

edwards does that with most of their guitars. I mean most of the gibson copies with humbuckers have JBs in the bridge, which is probably slightly hotter than the custom 5.

 

[gordon]

Yes those pickups are way over the top for this guitar. The neck pickup is flabbery and undefined and the bridge pickup sounds way to compressed.
I got rid of them and put in some nice Bareknuckle Stormy Mondays.
Now the guitar really shines, it is unbelievabe!
Good luck on the soldering / fumbling, I managed to get one vol pot thru the f-hole, the other thru the bridge pickup cavity. The ground wire to the bridge was so short, it freaked me out.
I also put in some mallory caps once it was open.
Now it is my main weapon of choice, does everything from killer clean, funky rhythm, nice crunch and cut-thru leads.

 

[proflonghair]

An update: the stock SD pickups only managed to annoy me as time went on: the neck was too woolly even for me, and the bridge pickup was so ridiculously nu-metal that I could only tolerate it in the neck+bridge position.

I picked up some Wolfetone Dr. Vintage PAFs, and they've transformed the guitar completely - love it to bits now. Wish I'd done it months ago. Whisper it, but it wasn't even that hard to change the pickups...

 

[luis]

I agree about Wolfetone Dr. Vs, they are very good pickups and I will keep them in my Reborn. I just tried his Legends and Marshallheads and I recomend either.

 

[gordon]

Whisper it, but it wasn't even that hard to change the pickups...

Haha, lol! If it wouldn't have been for that ground wire, I would have been done in 15 Minutes!