Lord-of-the-strings Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 I was just thinking, say I could have some sort of quick connect between my output jack and wire connecting my electronics to my output would it be worth the time to have two pickguards 1 with single coills on 'er for a nice vintage sound and another one with humbuckers or 'er for a thick rockin' out sound so if I wanted one sound I could just take off the pickguard with one set of pups, put the other one on and connect 'er all up? Seems like a neat idea for me. But maybe that's why someone invented coil splitting so would it be worth the money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 That idea has some merit. Its an easy way to swap pickup brands, outputs, tones whatever you choose. Your guitar body would have to have some "universal" routing, ie. swimming pool cavity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay5 Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 Didnt EMG (maybe?) have pickups with quick connectors that you could swap out by just unplugging them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 Ordinarily I'm all for weird and wacky ideas like this one...but it seems like it'd be a lot easier just to put one guitar down and pick up the other... Mostly because in order to swap out the pickups, you'll have to detune the strings, unscrew everything, undo the hookups, redo the hookups, screw in everything and retune the strings...a lot of work! Now, if you were able to mount the pickups on either side of a flippable panel, you'd be in business... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gripper Posted October 29, 2005 Report Share Posted October 29, 2005 Dang, dang, dang! There was a thread about this about two years ago and I can not FIND it. I think the thread was like about a TRANSFORMER guitar that you could switch around the setup by changing universal parts. I thought that when you needed more variety, you added more pickups and switches. Ever seen Bootsie's guitar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curtis P Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 at what IDCH what saying.... If you have a well set up guitar with a GOOD trem in it, locking nut, you could simply let the strings go slack, swap out your pups, and bam, your in action Curtis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-0 Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 I've been thinking about a great way to pull off quick pickup switching. I can't tell you what it is yet but I can tell you this. It will take less than ten seconds to switch any or all of the pickups to one or more alternate pickups, the strings will not have to detune one bit, and it will make the guitar look really, really, ugly. The body shape can remain exactly what it is, as long as it's about strat size or bigger, and it won't need and huge mechanisms (your hand controls the entire process), but its definately gonna look wierd. Anyway, maybe you should just get very versatile pickups, or a coil tap. I think after the novelty of pulling the plate and replacing it wears off, you'll wish you had two different guitars. It would probably take almost as long as just switching the pups. Just my 2 cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickguard Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 I saw a photo of a Gibson pickup tester --it was a Les Paul routed out from the back so you could just pop in any pickup (humbucker) that you wanted in order to hear how it sounded. You didn't need to detune at all. I'd say something like that would be your best bet--the front of the guitar ends up looking the same. You could install 'master' rings on top and mount the humbuckers to a back panel instead. You'd need to put the wires on clips, but that shouldn't be difficult to do. You're not limited to humbuckers though. You could get or make something similar to these Pickup Adaptor Rings But you could also just get humbucker-shaped single-coils too. This probably wouldn't work with a guitar with a trem cavity though, unless you're willing to convert to a hardtail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Uh, what if you break a string? That'll throw you off for a good couple of tunes, more if you have a Floyd. I'd rather have another guitar handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiggz Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 yeah im with idch, crazy ideas are cool somtimes, but i think this is a little to difficult to achieve (well would be for me), but go for it if you dont mind spending some time and some money on it, go for gold luke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. pierce Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 What about the Dan Armstrongs idea with his old Ampeg guitars? (I always loved those things, but I'm a huge Greg Ginn fan. Someday I'll have the money) The pickups where potted into a brown epoxy, it seems, sort of like those Bartolini p'ups, and they had what appears to be "banana" (I think that's what they're called) connectors on them. The guitar had sort of a weird "scoop" taken out where the pickups went in, so you could slide it in under the strings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishLuthier Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 (edited) I have made pickups with Quick connectors: pretty much like the EMGs. It wasn’t much more work to wound, but it were for a Tele, and you don’t swap a Teles bridge pup just like that. Not completely well thought out… But for a Strat style guitar I think that it could be possible to make a complete pick guard with switching and all, and a quick connector to the output jack. If you also find a way to snap the pick guard in and out I think it would be an interesting instrument. Edited October 31, 2005 by SwedishLuthier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kith Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 It is a nice idea, but really, it would be too much work to switch pickguards that much. I would suggest just getting humbuckers that can be split to sound like single coils. flipping a switch is a LOT easier and faster than changing a pickguard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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