I have a McCarty archtop. Beautiful guitar and a wonderful tone when set to the neck pickup. The issue I have is that you can't control the volume or tone of the two pickups independently. Thus the blending possibilities do not exist. I don't like the sound of either the combo or the bridge pick up so I'm left with mostly a "one trick pony". Have you ever modified a PRS Hollowbody (Archtop model or any hollow model) to allow for each pick up having separate volume controls and same for the tone?
Would you caution against messing with an instrument that could appreciate in value over the years? (But then again, if you could get so much more use and joy out of it by getting it to work better, what's that worth?)
Would you caution against messing with an instrument that could appreciate in value over the years? (But then again, if you could get so much more use and joy out of it by getting it to work better, what's that worth?)