So I swapped in some P90s assembled from various parts I had lying around. Neck pickup now reads 7.4 Kohms, bridge pickup 8.2 Kohms. I put twin Alnico 3 magnets in the neck unit, twin Alnico 4s in the bridge. Covers are now silver nickel, which steals way less treble than brass does. The bridge pickup is really trebly now, and sounds best with the tone control slightly reduced.
The nut was really badly cut, so I made a new one from a bone blank I had.
So now this feels like a much more expensive guitar than what I paid for it (6000 NOK, which is around 535 USD). Extremely lightweight at 2.666 kg (5.88 pounds), yet well-balanced. Really easy to play. I put Pyramid Roundcore 11–50s on it, sounds like a good choice for this guitar.
The only bad thing: A dull spot on the 9th fret on the G string and 5th fret on the B string. (Not a dead fret, which would have been repairrable.) Not completely dead, but sustain is about 60 per cent on those notes compared to surrounding notes. I know this is quite common for thinline hollowbodies, and I guess I will learn to live with it.
It very slightly annoys me that the ⋲ is missing from the pickguard.
