I'm happy to say that I just picked up my D'Angelico with the reissue 1100 DeArmond pickup on it, and the sound is fantastic!
Many years ago I had a DeArmond RC 1000 on it, and though it was very good, it didn't pick up the top E string well enough, and someone reported that the Korean shop that is making the re-issue for Guild has reproduced it so well, that it had the same problem.
The 1000 also used the monkey bar to secure the pickup, and it was a real PITA because the screws would come loose and the pickup would move. The tone and volume controls were also a PITA, because you had to use a smaller sized jack that would always fall out and had an electronic hum that was very annoying.
Since I bought the re-issue 1100 for only $60, I decided to follow Roger Borys' advice and have it attached to the pick guard instead of having him drill a hole in the neck and attaching it with the thin bar provided.
Roger was able to find a much better volume and tone control than the POS one I still had from the old RC 1000, and it has 1/4 inch jack rather than the smaller one the RC 1000 used.
According to Roger, it wasn't an easy job in an email he said- " Pickup works well. Was a pain in the *** getting it to fit. Had to cut the pole pieces. The guitar sounds really good acoustically and electrically."
It sounds much better than the RC 1000 sounded,with the high E string perfectly picked up, and has that beautiful bell-like sound that Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell's D'Angelicos had.
It also has that incredible sustain that Smith's guitar had, and Roger had to literally kick me out of his shop because he wanted to go home, and i couldn't stop playing it through his Polytone Mini-Brute.
Roger emailed me a picture of it, and I'll try to post it if I can figure out how to attach it.
BTW, the guy who screwed up my fingerboard and fret job, also did the same thing to a friend of mine's D'Angelico, and the poor guy was in tears over it, and couldn't sleep for a month. I had to pay Roger $250 to further repair the mess he made out of my guitar, and yes, he used to work for Guild...