Heritage HRW Floater?

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Did Heritage ever make a HRW floating pup?

[DetroitBlues]

Probably not, the HRW was a Schaller humbucker that was completely reworked.  

However, just my thoughts anyway.

[bolero]

I can't remember who built their jazz floater pickups before? Someone local to Kalamazoo?

they sounded good. I think they were all Humbuckers?

I don't think the Schaller pickup design would work as a floater, it's too deep. Maybe if you got rid of the cover & modded the baseplate.

[skydog52]

I reached out to Ren. He said they never were used as floaters. 

[pressure]

Ken Rambo made the first floaters Heritage used. There were 2 or 3 different pickups designated by stickers on the bottom. Heritage floating pickups are now made in house and they are Fab.

[MartyGrass]

I believe Ken made 3 versions, the large majority being Floating #3.

Ken Armstrong would rebuild these to a higher output for about $100.

I have what's probably a unique one rebuilt as a single coil by one of the current Heritage team.

People bad mouthed the Floating #3 a lot.  I firmly believe much of the criticism came from the urge to guild the lilly.  The #3 is an excellent low output humbucker.  It is very clean, almost acoustic sounding.

[big bob]

I replaced the floater on my sweet 16 with a lollar gold foil floater. Would definitely recommend it. 

[MartyGrass]

8 hours ago, big bob said:

I replaced the floater on my sweet 16 with a lollar gold foil floater. Would definitely recommend it. 

Hmm.  That's really interesting.  How would you describe the tone?  Did it slide into the pickguard mount like the Floating #3?