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Clean and cool as always, jammy. Nice work.

Is it a Bill Lawrence USA pickup or a Bill and Becky pickup? BLUSA pickups are potted in epoxy, so you're not replacing anything there. If it's a Bill and Becky made pickup, call 'em up and they'll tell you what you need to know, or probably even offer to repair or replace it.

Not surprising. There's been a big feud going on with eBay for some time now with template-sellers, some are good, some are not good. GBT has a disclaimer on their website now that states that their templates may be an "approximation". Okay, if I wanted an "approximate" Tele, I'd just look at a photo of a Tele and try to copy it by hand, why spend $69 on a template?

Pictured, of course, with his Ormsby GG6 Signature guitar...

The word "disturbing" doesn't even come close...

Thanks. I'll be here all week.

Yes. Anything ferrous will affect the sound of the guitar.

By "real", I'm assuming you mean like a Gibson humbucker. In a word, no, not exactly, but it'll depend on how the single coils were constructed. If it's a traditional SC, then the polepieces are individual magnets. Gibson humbuckers use a bar magnet that touches all the polepieces to prevent string dropout and simplify assembly. Now, some cheaper SC pickups also use small bar magnets on steel polepieces for simplicity and cost, and using two of those might sound closer, but you have to keep in mind that SC pickups are usually wound hotter than the individual coils on a humbucker, so YMMV. Check out Rio Grande Pickups. They've been using the "two single-coils as a humbucker" concept for a long time.

It will be hum-cancelling if you wire it up correctly and one of the pickups is reverse-wound and reverse-polarity.

There are magnet suppliers all over the world that you can get the appropriate magnets from. Just Google it.

So why do you want an S in the middle instead of an SA?

I say give it a shot and see what happens. I think you'd be better off with the S in the bridge, though.

Congrats! Two batteries sound better in a bass than a guitar. With a bass, you want lots of headroom. With a guitar, not so much. YMMV.

Oh... *SELF-SNAP* This is what happens when you cruise the forum AFTER looking up pron...

[quote name='westhemann' post='324726' date='Apr 16 2007, 09:40 AM']if i use passives,i use duncans...never emg passives.[/quote] Aren't the HZ's made by Duncan for EMG? Or is it Lace that manufactures them?

Too lazy to type complete words, too? Why even set up an account when it's fewer keystrokes and mouseclicks to type a search into Google? Looks like just another garden variety '80s strat copy. Nothing special here.

[quote name='GregP' post='324662' date='Apr 15 2007, 09:22 PM']Wow, how did you dig this thread out of the archive in order to bump it? <lol> That response is only 4 years delayed. [/quote] Well, at least he's correct. EMG-HZ's aren't bad pickups, just a little misunderstood.

The cap is the little round thing on the tone on the diagram, if you're looking at diagram #2. Try using the zoom feature on Acrobat to make the diagram large enough to make out the details. You'd think with computers and color printing available for so cheap EMG would update their diagrams and support sheets.

Probably.

It's not a transistor, it's a capacitor. Yes, if you want the tone control to work like a tone control, you need the cap in there. What exactly is the problem?

Nice work! It's good to see all these natural-finished guitars 'round here now. BTW, I have that same Levi's strap, too!

i think i'd hve better luck makin my own... $20,000.00 f****** dollars is insane... Well, there was about a twenty year period there when nobody was buying anything from Dean Z, so I guess he's gotta pay for the knappy ho's in his advertisements somehow. At least he didn't go the way of Kramer, although they put out some pretty sick axes that one can actually play in public without looking like a fool. Although, I do like the Dean Cadillac for whatever reason.

+1 Not to mention the fact that a tuning capacitor will start doing exactly that--tuning in radio signals and making the first circuit in your amp with spurious oscillation start tuning in KOMA out of Moore, OK.

I'd just add a good quality overdrive pedal to your lineup--like one of those new MXR/Custom Audio Electronics Boost/Overdrive pedals. I think that in combo with the quality effects and amp you already have will work quite nicely with a set of Duncan '59s or DiMarzio PAFs.

I've used the PAF Pro before and I use the PAF Classic in my Les Paul. The PAF Pro is the staple '80s shredder pickup--great for processing, good balance of tones. The Duncan JB is also great--but I don't like it going through a processor. There's a lot of people who rip on DiMarzio just because Ed Roman rips on 'em, but they really do make great pickups. EVH is back to using Duncan on the EVH Art Series and Frankenstein, but he used the DiMarzios for a LONG time. Anyway, the choice of using the amp to pull the load or pushing the preamp with the pickups is pretty much whatever floats yer boat. I like a front-loaded little Champ or Junior for blues, but for straight-up rock and shred I think you're better off with a clean pickup, quality effects, and a strong amp turned all the way to 11. A lot of people just turn the amp all the way up and control the overall volume with the volume control on the guitar or a volume pedal. The other issue is that hotter pickups lose a lot of high-end response and you really have to EQ 'em up to get the highs back.