Im curious is anyone uses different pickups in there Bluesbird. I find Alnico 5 magnets like the '59 model pretty harsh in the Bluesbird w/ the chambered body. I use Alnico 2 Duncans in mine (APH1 neck, SH-11 bridge). These sound AMAZING in this guitar. With this set-up I can get all of the stock BB sounds & much more. The bridge will growl harder than any Les Paul (stock BB lacks this sound and was the ONE thing a Les Paul could do well) but with fantastic single coil sounds (4-wire PUPS with push/pull pots). Im just curious if anyone else has tryed anything else and what there experiance has been.