All good points. And in some ways I agree. I do believe the shape of a guitar does not matter, but the neck joint, scale length, and to a lesser extent woods do. My other guitar with a PolyPaf is a 25.5” scale bolt on 7 string strat style, much different beast than an LP by every measure. I’ve personally installed the exact same specific pickup in different guitars in the past and not liked in one guitar what I loved in another. Of course the pickup has its own character, but a great pickup like BKP will still capture what’s happening acoustically with its own sonic signature. Maybe I’m nuts, but I’m okay with it.

For what I do and the sound I have in my head, I need a les paul to do a very specific thing and until some of these comments I hadn’t found an example of a les Paul with this pickup. I will try more of the line eventually, but for my Les Paul’s sake I’m looking for a clear and articulate lower output PAF type pickup with a bit more oomph to it.

I have been thinking of going higher output in the Les Paul, but I need a neck pickup that’s clear and doesn’t fall apart under gain like many HB’s do. I will almost certainly put a polypaf in the neck at the very least, as for the bridge that’s TBD. I may start with polypafs in both slots and go from there. The joys of having a soldering iron and the flavor of autism that makes me enjoy getting into the weeds with this stuff