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All,
Thought I'd pass on something that I thought was interesting while I was researching. Say you're like me, you have a Les Paul style guitar that is mahogany (or closest to) and rosewood for fretboard, and you want to be able to play in all styles. So you use Tone Wizard, enter these values, and try each style. It spits out first and second choice picks for your values. So you write them all down, every style. You assign 2 points for being the first choice, 1 point for being the second choice. If you do that and tally it up, you'll find that the '59 neck pickup has the highest points for a neck pickup: 10. The JB will have the highest (10) for the bridge pickup. I just found that slightly interesting, since the Jazz/JB is supposed to be the most versatile combination. I guess it depends on what your guitar is made of, eh? On a lighter note, I'm going with the '59/JB combo, and I'll get both in 4-wire variety.

I think a JB, Jazz, and '59 are all great pickups, when used in the right guitar. My big issue (complaint) is that I don't quite agree with many of the choices the quot;Tone Wizardquot; spits out.

I probably would agree that '59/JB is awesome. I have never really been a fan of the Jazz model.

...and the tone wizard does sucketh mightily.