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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 13, 2018 at 5:45am

P90's, Lipstick Tubes,Tele pickups, Strat pickups, Gold Foils and mini-buckers have all been used with a great following for reso type guitars. Flatpup pickups would be a good choice and piezo's would work great too.

The big issue you may encounter with magnetic pickups is possible feedback, so you may need to encase the pickups or wrap the back and sides of the pickup with some foam unless the pickup is encased with shielded metal covers or plastic covers and epoxy. 

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Permalink Reply by Robert Bryan on October 13, 2018 at 8:08am

That’s a good point on mag pickups, I will check and see just how good a stainless was used. If good quality it shouldn’t be magnetic

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 13, 2018 at 10:37am

Metals of all types can have effects on pickups either for good or bad. Even non magnetic metals can have an effect on the magnetic field, you just have to try it out and see.

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Permalink Reply by BrianQ. on October 13, 2018 at 12:00pm

If you’re doing neck-thru with the open side of pan up,wich I recommend.  then you haven’t anything to worry about bcuz you’ll be mounting pickups in the neck body. With that said I would use anything you want besides a disc piezo, it really makes it sound tinny.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on October 13, 2018 at 4:27pm

True that.

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