[cryptozoo]

I *think* I've always read Angus used thin strings and Malcolm used the heaviest guage he could find. I've also wondered about how he pulled those tones out of lower-output pups, which his almost certainly were, but I've resigned it to his hands and playing. I'd read an interview once where he said people come play his rig at soundcheck and they'll ask where his distortion pedal is, to which he responds it's the way he picks the strings.

I've got two early-60s Jrs (both with LP decals). Neither are completely original, but one of them I got for a song. It was in pretty bad shape, someone had beat it up, refin'd it and routed the P90 area to accomodate a humbucker, but it looked like they'd used a chainsaw. I cleaned it up a bit, the 'bucker turned out to be a late 60s Pat# (mid 7k rating) but it was terribly wax-potted. I put it in the neck of one of my LPs and tried a bunch of different humbuckers out in the SG before settling on the Angus Signature. I didn't give it a chance before, just figured it was a Gibson marketing ploy, but it's a damn good humbucker. I prefer it over all but one of the T-Tops I've had.