DCobb

hmm, does that mean an ebow won't work on an active pickup either? or does that work differently with the pickup?

dammit, I'll leave sustainer fiddling out of that project then ty in advance

Hmm, is it possible to modify an active pickup like an EMG SA into a driver?

Hmm, it appears the kind of work needed to make commercial sustainer technology more feasible is quite large then. Maybe this explains why Fender, Gibson and the like haven't capitalised on it, cause they're lazy Do you think it could eventually be possible to run a sustainer in any of the currently 'impossible' scenarios with enough experimentation?

Kool, you've been a great help so far I'm going to try and build a circuit over the summer that will be able to *hopefully* switch the pickup attatched to the sustainer from middle to bridge when the sustainer is on, so if you have an hss layout you can get the sustainer sound on different types of pickup (if that's in any way possible ) and I have a *possible* solution to the 'pop' problem, don't know if that's what you just described. It could be possible to add a killswitch into the switch that turns the sustainer off that briefly cuts the connection from the jack as the switch is flicked then reconnects when it it fully turned off. Would this work? If not the other solution is having a killswitch on the guitar and using it when you're going to turn the sustainer off? xD Ignore me if that's nonsense, I don't rly know what I'm talking about, I just want to take part and maybe learn something eventually

haha, great explanation and method for testing guitar modifications without defacing more expensive guitars when things go wrong, but I was more specifically referring to the sustainer I'm going to test lots of diy sustainer things on my beaten up squier, but the custom guitar I'm looking to build soon is what I want the finished kind of sustainer mod to be placed on (it's going to be a hollowbody strat shaped guitar). What I meant really was what are the exact materials you'd need from scratch to turn an HSS stratocaster into an HSS stratocaster with a sustainer? I'll be buying bits soon , so any advice? Ideally it needs an off-on switch and a normal/harmonic switch (In a PERFECT world, it needs an off - bridge pickup - middle pickup switch and a normal/harmonic/blend switch xD)

Hmm, I've had a better look at the projects you've done with sustainers and the other threads now. To be honest, I'm looking for a layout very similar to the stratocaster you fitted with a sustainer -> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/pet...on/StratTop.jpg Any chance of a rundown of exactly what components/tools you'd need to get that from an ordinary stratocaster? since I will soon have a useless squier when I upgrade, I'm thinking of joining in on the game of messing around

Hmm, I have a different kind of question. If you place a sustainer next to another pickup, would it affect that pickup after the sustainer was switched off? Also, would it be possible to have a kind of S S H layout where the sustainer is only turned on (or even able to be turned on) on one pickup setting, without it interfering with the other settings?

Thanks for your support and ideas, that gives me a lot to think about I'll probably be altering the electronics heavily even of the sustainer until I find a way to achieve this :S. Ths thing is I'm going to rear rout the guitar for H S H and place the sustainer to the bridge side of the neck pickup if possible, but I'd prefer to keep the actual pickup sounds as bluesey as possible (being a blues man), so I'm wondering if it's possible to have the sustainer next to a texas special even if the sustainer's only ever on when the bridge humbucker is on it's own? Any more ideas?

hm... I'm aiming to fit a fernandes sustainer with a pearly gates bridge pickup, alongside 2 texas special strat pu's. This will make the guitar look like an HSH when it's really an HSS. I'm also aiming to have coil splitting and an equivalent of an fender-s1 switch on the guitar I'm building. Is this an impossible dream? I don't care if the sustainer only works in 1 pickup position or anything. let me know before I do it please