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Yeah, I've a Kurokumo excellent from England.
A mosriteforum member has sell his guitar to me and now I'm asking to you a little help to set up the guitar

As you see you'll notice a not original bridge pickup; this has little volume compared to neck pickup

So I've ordered a pair of Ed Elliot pickups to obtain a balanced sound

My question is:
1. what is the correct pickups height?

2. tremolo spring is really soft! Tremolo arm is going up and down with a really soft touch. I don't know if tremolo spring must be harder or not

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Here's what I do:

First lower the Pickup height.
Push down the strings between the pickups and increase the height until they almost touch the strings.
I found this to be a good setup. YMMV! You can also simply play around with the height until you find the tone you desire.

Regarding the easy going whammy:
You can purchase new springs on ebay - also for heavy string gauges. These might tighten things up a little.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Kilian

Congratulations on the Mosrite, Massimo!

I also like to keep the pickups as close to the strings as possible. Basically, I set the bridge pickup as high as it goes without touching the strings, and then adjust the neck pickup to balance it.

As for the vibrato, vintage Mosrites have a very light touch to the vibrato. Personally, I like it, but if you don't, there are different springs available on eBay as Sancho said.

Good luck!
Mel

Bob Shade can hook you up with the spring! I play with 11 gauge strings. The pickup height should be as close to the strings as you can, but I think it is personal preference. good luck!

thank you very much for your help!
First of all I'll set height pickups with new Thomastik flatwound strings, after mounting Ed Elliot pickups.

About spring tremolo I'll waiting for a while, I'm not sure to change it

Some of you could post some pictures about pickup height?

This is taken from google