Montys PAF Pickups

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Just been offered a trade of a PRS SE  Bernie Marsden with Montys Handwound PAF Pickups in. Had a quick look and they look decent and expensive. Guitar will come with the original pickups too, is it worth putting them back in and selling the monty ones separately? Don't know much about them and their resale value. 

crunchman

The pickups have a very good reputation.  The guitar will probably sound better with them in.

I'd keep them in there, but keep the originals in a drawer somewhere.  If you ever come to sell it then you will make more money putting it back to stock and selling the Montys pickups separately.

4114Effects

I was going to sell both ... thought I might maximize the profit by selling the pickups separately and the guitar stock. :-) 

Lebarque

They're excellent PAFs. Someone will snap them up pretty quick I'd wager. Whip them out and sell them separately if you want to make maximum profit.

guitars4you

If you are going to sell then yes split to maximize sales/profit - The Monty p/ups are desirable enough on their own, but I don't think you'll be able to add the same value to the PRS BM - again the PRS BM should be easy enough to sell

sweepy

Iirc Chris of Rift amps fame has a set of Montys in his Les Paul and he rates them v highly 

xchrisv

Monty's PAFs are amazing sounding things... up there with the very best PAF clones 

Kalimna

Hopefully in a year or so I will discover how they sound in a Ryder LP

Adam

RiftAmps

I can't say enough good things about Monty's PAFs.

Put the original pickups back in the PRS and sell it. Then buy yourself a really good LP and put the Monty's in.

TTony

RiftAmps said:

Put the original pickups back in the PRS and sell it. Then buy yourself a really good LP and put the Monty's in.

From what I've heard, that's probably the bestest answer you're going to get.

Even if it might cost you a bit

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TTony said:

RiftAmps said:

Put the original pickups back in the PRS and sell it. Then buy yourself a really good LP and put the Monty's in.

From what I've heard, that's probably the bestest answer you're going to get.

Even if it might cost you a bit

Dammit ... I'm supposed to be making money here, not spending it!

clarkefan

Why does this *never ever* happen to me?  Congrats!

Schnozz

Just to confirm, PRS are shit.

rico

I'll have the PAFs!

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rico said:

I'll have the PAFs!

Lol. Send me a PM with an offer and I'll work out whether the trade is worth it for me :-) 

mburekenge

Matt @ Monty's just fitted a set of PAFs on my R7. They are unbelievably good and have taken an already great instrument into another stratosphere. Think tele levels of articulation but with classic humbucker punch and girth.

andyp

Mike Bradley posted a video of his new Monty’s PAF’s the other day. Even to my untrained ear over YouTube they sounded like a massive improvement on his LP. They really sounded incredible.

https://youtu.be/-P8gGHoPVB8

ESBlonde

andyp said:

Mike Bradley posted a video of his new Monty’s PAF’s the other day. Even to my untrained ear over YouTube they sounded like a massive improvement on his LP. They really sounded incredible.

https://youtu.be/-P8gGHoPVB8

Yea saw that the other day. The difference is in there to hear.