Kris Ford
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Honestly, this sounds like those mythic 70's stories, and I'm having a hard time believing it. There was no shortage of Standards and no one was ordering new Pro Deluxes and routing them as new guitars before selling them.
Finding used routed Pro Deluxe Les Pauls is hard. I installed the DiMarzio Deluxe soap bar humbucker or the Bill Larwence rail p90 size humbuckers. Both excellent choices, IMO.
I still have a pair of each.
Al, do you know if the old DLX is the same as the DP209?
I notice that they still make soapbar size HBs as a DP162 and DP154, what seems to be equivalent to a SD set, but with filister head poles..
I might have to try one someday..
Next question is, how did they compare to their regular size brethren? Seem to have same DCR, and mags.
Were they full size bobbins, just mounted on a more compact plate?
Also seems that it was possible to have the SD/PAF combo in the soapbar size, a very wise move..
Mine was routed (I'm going to start using the word CONVERSION :spabout) in the 70's NO doubt as it is a VERY early '76 (by SN# alone, all other features are '75, with week 46 of 75 pots), it was still well before the re-release of the OFFICIAL Standard, so there still weren't many full size NON LPC HB LPs and while I would probably never need to do that to a new LP, I can surely see why so many were done.