Restoring guitar: What bridge and pickups to chose?

[mwc]

Hi

I own an old Jackson Kelly and I wanna restore it so I can use it from time to time. The "Jackson Floyd Rose" that's on the guitar stock sucks. I wanna switch to something better but have no idea what would fit. Was thinking off a Gotoh or somewhere in that pricerange.

The pickups that's fitted in the guitar atm is 1 EMG XX (active) and a Levin XX (not plugged in). They will be swapped to high output passive pickups. The first I had in mind was the Seymour Duncan SSH-8B - Invader kit. Anyone that has tried 'em?

If I remember right there's only a volume-knob on it. Any idea what ohm it should be?

Thankfull for any help!

Cheers
// Martin Carlsson.

 

[Metaljim]

Any pics of the bridge? If it's the same bridge that's on my Jackson PS-4. Then a Schaller floyd rose will be a direct replacement.

 

[mwc]

Any pics of the bridge? If it's the same bridge that's on my Jackson PS-4. Then a Schaller floyd rose will be a direct replacement.

I've have got a picture but no place to upload 'em. =S

 

[Vigil87420]

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[mwc]

This is a picture of the bridge on my Jackson Kelly.

 

[darren]

That looks like a TRS. Maybe replace it with an OFR or Floyd Pro?

 

[mwc]

That looks like a TRS. Maybe replace it with an OFR or Floyd Pro?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Beaster66]

The Volume could be 500k

 

[Grievous]

Thats a jackson JT580lp bridge, they arent too bad for a licensed floyd in my opinion...but the knife edges do wear out, due to it being softer cheaper metal than OFRs. You can do a direct swap with an OFR, but there will be a gap showing. The Schaller licensed floyd fits better, but both will work. I replaced a JT500 on my Jackson with a schaller floyd with no probs. Huge improvement!

 

[leandroab]

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