I am toying with the idea of getting a 69 off ebay. I would want to change the pickups as well. Does anyone know if there is room for a neck humbucker? I want to put prails in neck and bridge and maybe a lipstick in the middle.

If I pull the trigger, I would also have the guitar stripped and refinished in a more unique color etc. I would also swap the neck for a warmoth compound radius tele neck.

While I am at it the pickguard would have to go as well. Lol.

So, I would swap pick ups, pick guard, neck, tuners and refinish the darn thing. One step shy of a transplant I guess. lol

Hey Larry,

Yeah, I did change the PUPs. I put a Duncan Custom trembucker inthe Bridge and 2 Fender Customshop Fat 50's in the middle and neck positions. All the pickups are white so they match. I didn't like the sound of any of the JTV PUPs so these new ones are a significant upgrade. In fact,they are thePUPs that Fender put on their Customshop Showmaster Strats. This PU configuration sounds really good. Although I must admit there is more hum. So your idea of putting the SCN PUPs on is even a better idea. I have SCNs on 2 Deluxe USA strats and they sound very good. The fat 50's seem to have more frequency response and are more open sounding. the SCNs are more compressed which sound better for alot of strat sounding tones. And. as I have said the Fat 50's are pretty noisy.

You might check into diMarzio, as they have something like a stock PAF that fits into the bridge. It turns out that james Tyler is using an unusual size humbucker acording to my friend who is a guitar tech. This will come a lot cheaper than the Duncan custom Trembucker. And, you can probably transplant the SCNs out of another guitar if you have them in one. Anyway not nearly as expensive as the Customshop PUPs

The actual PU swap was not so difficult. I got the wiring diagrams for the James Tyler mag PUPs on this site in documents section. My friend did the surgery. He said it did not interfere with the Line 6 wiring at all since that is all off the Piezo. The only problem left for me was that I wanted the wiring of the mags on the JTV 69 to be like that on my Showmaster strat: Bridge, Bridge-Middle, Bridge-Neck, Middle- Neck, and Neck. (and I have a coil tap on the Trembucker as well). But the Five-way switch IS so involved with the Tyler setup that I would have had to put in a special five-way switch to do it, and I still might have messed up the Tyler stuff. So, i aborted that idea.  Wisely I think.

Earlier in this post Line 6 Hugo warned that changing PUPs could void the warranty. I believe that may not be the case if none of the Line 6 wiring is tampered with and the guitar is not damaged. None the less, I could not live with the Tyler PUPs so I am happy that I have swapped them out. The new mag PUPs sound really good and I have the best of both worlds- a great sounding modern strat and all the Line 6 modelling goodness in 1 guitar!