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Originally Posted by targa911S
If I were to send the works out to you, would you want the whole guitar of should I just send you the electronics? Brighter and thinner describe the 76 sound to a tee.
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Just the pickups alone, if you're able to test the pots specs yourself.
I'm betting that if you striped all the hardware off both guitars, you'll find that the '76 is heavier. Weigh them both with all thier hardware
on and let us know. A few ounces shouldn't make much of a difference... Denser wood, I've found, will affect tone and overall volume in huge ways...brighter, thinner, stiffer sound.
The mirrored pickguard on the '79...might make a difference, but being that it's mounted on the wing instead of around the pickups, I don't think it would be that noticeable... if it were around the pickups, like a strat, the hard, stiff glass could transfer more solid vibration to the pickups directly.
You could send both sets of pickups and I could compare the gauss levels of the '76 to the '79. A simple test you could do at home would be to stick a screwdriver to each pickup at several locations and do a "pull" test... which one pulls the hardest on the screwdriver? Don't forget... two magnetic fields in each pickup! Test each one...