Pickups for ambient

[blue313]

Jay Tursers aren't horrible, but IMO you'd be better off on the whole with a used MIM. 

What do you have now?

 

[jskpongoui]

a lyon by washburn strat knockoff rental

 

[Vol. Knob]

a used MIM isn't a bad guitar at all.  But nowhere near as fun as building your own.  And don't forget the bragging rights when you have a unique instrument you pieced together. 

At the end of the day, it really doesnt matter what the parts are.  The music is whats important.  Some great music has been performed and recorded on completely crap gear.  The notes are whats important, not the name brand on the gear.

Its part of my desire to build a guitar rig with no logos anywhere to be seen.

 

[erogenousjones17]

a used MIM isn't a bad guitar at all.  But nowhere near as fun as building your own.  And don't forget the bragging rights when you have a unique instrument you pieced together. 

At the end of the day, it really doesnt matter what the parts are.  The music is whats important.  Some great music has been performed and recorded on completely crap gear.  The notes are whats important, not the name brand on the gear.

Its part of my desire to build a guitar rig with no logos anywhere to be seen.

This is absolutely true, and yet it's something I've had a hard time convincing people of. The singer in my band plays a Squier Tele and our bassist and myself both play Warmoths (he's got a sweet green '51 P-Bass), and we get flack for our "crappy gear." At the end of the day, it's what YOU put in it that determines what sound comes out of an instrument, not what sticker someone else has slapped on.

 

[Vol. Knob]

Since this is for ambient.  I just launched a website for my studio project, which has some ambient leanings.  Theres a bunch of tunes you can listen to on the site.

http://www.zerababyl.com/

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

About the GFS bridges ... I haven't used the bridge jskpongoui linked to, but I recently installed their steel USA vintage-style tremolo bridge, and it was at least as good as the fender tremolo that it replaced.

If I had infinite time and money, I'd also try the (much) more Callaham to see how it compares, but I'm not sure if I'd hear that much difference.  Often, you get what you pay for, but there are deals (and overpriced crap) out there.