Looking for opinions........

[micha]

agreed.
but do what neilli said! sounds really reasonable to me...

[AfterForever]

keep em off.. be different

[wilkinsi]

Put'em on,looks finished

+1

[zeegler]

I had one of those in the same color. It was a nice guitar, but the wood around the trem posts was too soft, and they started pulling forward. The guitar was returned and I got a Kelly instead.

I like it better with the rings I think.

[petedz]

Looks better without 'em.

[Shwayman11]

How? The pickups don't care as long as they're close enough to the strings to pick up the vibration.

ever played witih pickups direct mounted to the body?
it just gives them BAWLS

[rocksoldier]

I prefer the clean look without pickup rings, but it´s your guitar.

[xenophobe]

lol.... Looks better with them on...

[guitarsjb]

With.

[jrnic]

I like the look with the pickup rings personally. I know there is an advantage, tone wise, with having the pickups direct mounted. As for the pickups getting the vibrations from the body, you could try using black metal rings. That might help transfer more of the body's vibrations to the pickups. I noticed a different sound when I put chrome metal rings on my RR3.

Go for the rings! It's your guitar. Why worry about the re-sale value down the road. If it makes you feel better.......... which equals more playing time with it now, then go for it!

[AdRock]

Well, I thought about it and gave myself a night to sleep on it. For now I'm going to leave the rings off. I'm still experimenting with different pickups and not having the rings makes each change that much easier without worry of breaking a ring. Once I find the pickups I want to keep I might throw the rings on.

Thanks for all the replies, I didn't expect this many.