Hey there,
Bit of a background story, if you want to skip ahead, scroll down to TL;DR.
I have a '97 Squire Strat that was given to my son in 2011 by his guitar teacher. It was a total wreck at the time, it had been sitting in his garage (in the sun by the look of the yellowing) and had become inhabited by families of little spiders in just about every nook and cranny on the thing. Not to mention the rust. Here's a photo:
I spent a couple of hundred on all new hardware (nothing could be saved), pickguard, pots (originals were infested with spiders) and selector switch. The neck and bridge pickups were open circuit even though the coil wires were still intact on the solder joints. I'd recently replaced a set of pickups in a Squire Strat for a mate, so I still had those ones, which, luck would have it, the neck and bridge were still good, but the middle was cactus. So I had a set of three that I put in and my son played it for a few years. Here's a pic of how it turned out (check out the circle from the Pennywise sticker). It cleaned up pretty nicely in the end and my son loved it.
Unfortunately, because the pickups were from different sets, the middle was always softer/lower when selected on its own, and virtually undetectable when switched with the neck or bridge.
Fast forward to now, my son has moved out and hasn't played for a few years. He wanted to take it with him but I knew he was going to sell it so I told him I'd invested too much time in it to be sold for a few bucks.
TL;DR
So now I'm thinking I want to put in some decent pickups. Here's my question finally:
I'm thinking of putting in a neck and middle Entwistle ASN57M (https://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/...alnico-middle/) and ASN57N (https://www.pitbullguitars.com/shop/...p-alnico-neck/) coupled with a Seymour Duncan Little '59 (http://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/...9-strat-bridge) humbucker in the bridge position.
The Entwhistles are 13.3k DCR, while the Seymour is 11.7k. I know it's not absolutely correct to say that higher resistance = higher output; so just wondering if because the bridge is a humbucker it will make up for any loss in level due to the lower resistance?
This is probably a stretch, but anyone ever tried this combo? .... *crickets*... didn't think so
Any comments or opinions gratefully received. Oh, in case you're wondering why I don't just put an Entwhistle in the bridge position, I wanted something a bit more ballsy than your usual Strat sound, figured this would be a reasonable compromise.
Cheers!