While my son was playing a video game, I wired up the pickups (blender) using components I'd bought from acme, using a spare GFS pickguard to hold the stuff. A few days later I swapped them in to the COBcaster. I had already verified that it worked using something I rigged up based on a video (perhaps by Jason Lollar). It has a guitar plug at one end, and two alligator clips at the other. So, after wiring, one can clip on to the wires meant to go to the jack, then plug in to an amp, and test the pickups by tapping with a screwdriver. Here's a picture:
The verdict: I really like the pickups. They have a much cleaner sound than the GFS pickups, which always seemed sort of noisy to me. Particularly through my new Vox AC4TV8, it is really sounding pretty good. And if I want more oomph on the bridge pickup, I can put in a Lace Sensor Burgundy. The Lace site gives ratings for each model in terms of resistance, inductance and peak frequency. I wish I understood this better - cool people say not to rely on resistance as a measure. But, FWIW,
| Model | Resistance | Inductance | Peak Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 5.8K | 2.4 | 3600 |
| Burgundy | 8.9K | 4.44 | 2700 |
