Pickup mods: Magnet-Swaps and the "Half-Air" mod demystified

[jhale667]

J, I will buy that guitar if you're willing to sell it. I'm serious.

Um, no.... but I'd build you one just like it...

[Seshmeister]

If you were 5000 miles closer I would be hiring you to do all sorts of shit...

[jhale667]

[Nitro Express]

Hey, whatever works.

So I have a push-pull 250k pot set up to do the coil split, and two CTS 250ks for tone controls. I just went with a standard 5-way switch, didn't go all exotic with a super switch or anything.

Oh come on. You have to have lots of toggle switches in different colors that light up.

[jhale667]

Oh come on. You have to have lots of toggle switches in different colors that light up.

Nah, you go ahead - I'm good with the standard 5-way and the coil tap...

[ThrillsNSpills]

Very cool. digging the strat with seymours!
and Sesh's purple Ibanez with Maple neck. Looks like great playability.

I sent my hohner out for a pickup change and got a Les Paul pickup in the bridge and a big T for a neck pickup.
seymour for the middle pickup. The thing sings! What a difference.

[jhale667]

Thanks, and glad yours worked out too! Reeeeeally impressed with the Stack Plus series - they KILL the original series (had the STK-S1N in Excalibur for a few years), and they sound way more present and less sterile than the Virtual Vintages I had in this guitar. The FU Big-Block does pretty much what I expected, but I think they give even a little mopre "oomph" with the Strat version by virtue of the fact that the strings are anchored in it. The combo was just the kick in the ass this guitar needed, and I'm kinda glad I went with the black color scheme, I'm already starting to like it better looks-wise than when it had the white pearloid pickguard on it...looked classy but tame before, now it's just like "Hey, FUCK YOU!"

[Seshmeister]

Very cool. digging the strat with seymours!
and Sesh's purple Ibanez with Maple neck. Looks like great playability.

Yeah it's very nice to play, a very fast neck. I keep coming back to it even though I got it cheap on Ebay. It arrived in a bin bag with a dozen dinks and dents.

It's starting to look like a home project by Ace Diamond.

Latest problem was halfway through recording the A string saddle in the FR screw stripped so now it's been replaced with one a different color.

I stuck the purple scratch plate on it a couple of months ago to make it a bit less ugly but you wouldn't want to wake up with it in the morning...

[ashstralia]

Um, no.... but I'd build you one just like it...

Give me a $$ figure to start saving towards then...

[vandeleur]

Man I need an eye test I thought that said give me figure so I can start starving towards .... I was about to start ashAid

[ashstralia]

Yeah, ashAid!!

I'll plug the hell out of j's guitars for free!!
There's an idea van, I reckon I'd know a few blokes who'd buy one.

:wink wink:

[jhale667]

Give me a $$ figure to start saving towards then...

If you want a drop-top body like that it'd run about $400 alone these days..the parts all together - would probably around a grand or so, and I wouldn't charge you a ridiculous amonut for the assembly and set-up... it could be done for well under $2k.

[ThrillsNSpills]

J's Warmouth strat reminds me of my G&L F100, which actually has seymour duncan JB's on it.
(it's much much less pretty being the go to picking exercise machine for about 15 years).
still sounds great though!

[jhale667]

J's Warmouth strat reminds me of my G&L F100, which actually has seymour duncan JB's on it.
(it's much much less pretty being the go to picking exercise machine for about 15 years).
still sounds great though!

There's a JB in my Koa Warmoth at the moment, agree they sound great! The low end could be a bit tighter for my tastes but overall they rock.

[jhale667]

Posted this in "Show your work" too, but it IS an example of the 59/Custom Hybrid and the STK-S7 combo in action...was switching pickups fairly regularly, and notice no huge volume drops...they mesh pretty well.