Did some pickup swapping (STV and ALHH)

I’ve posted before about trying different pickups in the ALHH (I wired a 2nd pickguard up so I can swap more easily. Original pickguard kept original pickups, new one had a bare bones 3 way toggle and standard 500k pots-no coil splitting/superswitching etc.) I tried a number of delightful pickups including the Duncan Saturday Night Specials, a Seth Lover neck/59 bridge combo, Harmonic Design Z90’s, a Lollar Charlie Christian in the neck. Most were close to what I wanted but still bugged…

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