ok so i have this guitar, it was my first guitar ever... it has what i believe is a
mahogony body... i replaced the origional neck with a 1 piece maple strat neck, and it has been painted since i got it... for some reason i cannot get a good sound out of it anymore, no matter what pickups i use... i have tried yamaha pickups and
ibanez pickups, i get the thinnest tone ever... i thought it was because there wasn't wood to wood contact on the neck joint, so i chipped off all the paint, and its a smooth contact now, but i still don't get any good tone from it... it sounds so thin and wirey whereas my fully modded RGT42 sounds so much better... right now it has Ibanez INF1 and INF2 pickups, and i've tried V1/V2 and one of the stock yamaha humbuckers, and can get nothing good out of it... i even tried screwing the pickups directly to the body, which is how i currently have the INF1 and INF2's, since i noticed how much it helped my RGT42 when i screwd the duncans into the body... i'm at a loss as of what to do... i got the origional yamaha 3 point switch in it, and i have a ibanez 500 ohm volume pot, no tone pot... any insights? this guitar used to have a tone that could rival any gibson out there, now it can't even rival my broken guitars lol, but i love the way it plays and would love to get the best sound i can out of it... i've had people online ask if it was single coil pickups after they heard it, it doesn't even sound as good as the INF1 and INF2's did when they were in the RGT42 stock... so any ideas? thanks
