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Does anyone know of a company that makes these and where i can buy some? thanks

from one pole piece to the next its 10mm ← So then the overall spacing would be 50mm then? And 50mm= 1 31/32 inches so i guess 2 inch would be closer.....

I just bought a set off of ebay and since i dont have them yet and i want them covered, does anyone know the pole piece spacing? Thanks

Ok, so i just put together a maple bodied bolt on neck Flying v. I had not planned on doing it but i was looking around on ebay and i stumbled across a v body that i ended up winning for 28 bucks. Anyway i put it together with parts that i had around here and the pickups that i had were humbuckers from a Saga LP kit. They sound bad, the neck is extremley muddy and the neck is shrill but very powerful. What i am looking for is: 1. A vintage type sound that is perhaps a little hotter. 2. Preferably an Alnico 5 magnet 3. It must have a nickle plated cover(the guitar has a mirrored pickguard and looks quite good with nicle covered pickups) Please tell me what pickup would do this for me. I dont care what brand either.Also i should mention that the guitar is wired with 250k pots, so please keep that in mind. What i am thinking of right now is using a SD Seth Lover in the neck and a Golden Age overwound from StewMac in the bridge,what do you guys think? Thanks!

Are your pickups very close to the strings on the low e side? If you get single coils too close to the strings the magnetic field will pull them out of tune.

Basically i really want to make sure the maple body doesnt make the sound too bright. Is their any other downsides to using 250k pots besides it loosing some highs? After some thought i have decided to go with a master volume and 2 tone controls so i guess neither will work for me,but thank you for responding!

This is going to be my first time wiring from scratch,my previous 2 projects were Saga Kits and i need some advice. The guitar that i am putting this into is a flying v made of all maple, i hadnt really planned on it but i stumbled onto it on ebay with an hour left, the final price was very good(26.00) and i also realized that i had a 24.75 bolt on neck, some humbuckers and a bridge that is just collecting dust. I want to make sure it isnt too bright so this is what i came up with. I went to Stew Mac and i saw a kit that was for Jazz Basses or any 2 pickup guitar. If i add a switch would this be a good kit for me? Also for pots i am going to go with 250k's but i am not really sure about which capacitors i should use. Do you guys have any advice? Do you guys have any recommended reading for wiring guitars? Thanks in advance!

Im not entirely sure what i would use for the back. I came across a Strat style body on ebay that used Marupa(which i have no idea what would sound like) for the back and cedar for the top, and that got me thinking" What would cedar sound like?" and "What the heck is Marupa?" Thanks for responding.

Does anyone have any experience with using cedar in a electric? Any idea?

What kind of sound would i get out of a guitar made of marupa? This would be for a solidbody electric. Thanks

Thank you. I already found the parts needed and have been playing it. I am very happy although i had to spend a bt more than i wanted to on the parts needed. Saga it seems,at least on my guitar,drills the hole for the stud at about 3/4 of an inch for the bridge,so it took a little looking around for the right parts. I will continue to tell everyone i know about the "service" of Torres. Never will i buy from them again.

The guitar is painted and finished,because i bought the parts i needed. Still the told me they were going to send it to me and they havent.

So i am sitting here over a week later and do i have the parts from Torres? No I really really dont like this company.....

Ive heard of them but never seen them... from what i remember and bare in mind this could be completly wrong... I think there good studio guitars (sure i read that a few bands have used them) Thats probably the most useless post ive wrote to date... ~~ Slain Angel ~~ ← Not useless at all. Any info is appreciated. Thanks

I just recently came across a Flying v copy and according to its headstock,its made by Regal. I thought they just made resonators and Dobros. Has anyone ever heard of these? Thanks

Thanks,i didnt know how to combine replies into one message.

Got em,love em. They have a nice Sabbathy heavyness to them. The only problem that i had was the lack of any wiring diagram,but i figured it out in the end. Well worth 21 bucks.

Um actually i was hoping that i would get the kit that i payed for that includes all the parts regardless of what said kit cost. Otherwise why would you buy it? It would be kinda like buying a Kia and not getting the engine or the seats,because it didnt cost much. I am not expecting this to be a Gibson Les Paul,i am expecting it to perform like a 180 dollar guitar,and even the cheapest strat clone has a bridge and i dont even have to put it together. ← Understood, but keep in mind, if you could buy a Kia "kit", pieces would probably be missing. The reason these kits are so cheap is they are built, packed, and shipped typically by unskilled workers doing the jobs for next to nothing pay. This being the case things get forgotten, overlooked, call it what you will. I've seen many "kits" where pieces are missing, even in expensive ones. The difference in a $200 kit, and a $200 guitar (completed) is the guitar has to play before it leaves the factory (maybe not well, but everything is supposed to function). If a part is missing, chances are good it will not function properly. When the kits are being packed, it's likely that the small bagged parts get tossed around and some probably end up on the floor of the factory only to be kicked under a bench somewhere for the rats to use ← All this is valid,but i am still not happy with not having the parts to complete a kit that i already payed for,and getting the runaround about getting these parts. I finnaly just got fed up and bought the parts. Brian was very very nice in offering but looking at my guitar and not being able to play it was driving me nuts. I will instead buy every other kit guitar and accessories from him from now on. Yes i do believe they are shady and i really wish i had read something like this before i bought from then. Telling someone that you will send the parts for a kit thta you already bought then not mailing them sucks. Then when calling them the next day to confirm that they are sending it out and being told that they didnt send it out and that they will maybe send it out "tomarrow or the next day or maybe the next because its out of my way" is much much worse. I will never buy from Torres ever again and will tell everyone i meet that they suck. Losing busines and reputation over 10 bucks worth of parts and 15 minutes of time is really bad business. I am glad that you didnt have any problems and i can see that you will continue to buy from them. We can only make informed decisions off of personal experience,and yours was good. I on the other hand have had nothing but problems and will run screaming from their business. Also the difference may be that you where physically in the store when you made your purchase. Sometimes when people are not face to face they act much worse. Also maybe they thought of you as "Person who lives/works close to us and would give us a bad reputation right here" as opposed to " Hick that lives in Idaho" I agree.

First of all thank you very much for offering to send me the studs. I called Torres and they said they would mail me one out "Tomarrow"(funnily enough i called them the day before and they said they would mail it out to me "Today") but they are kinda giving me the run around,so if they dont get it in gear soon,i will definatly take you up on it. And believe me the next kit i buy(and the next,and the next) will be from you. Thank you

I have replaced a couple of pickups before and i do have a general understanding. The Duncan pickup was great and the diagram worked fine,the other one didnt have a diagram and had 5 wires running from,which i have never run into before. Even then it was basically just hooking it up a couple of different ways until it worked. i had the most problem with the rest of the electronics because i was trying to follow the diagram and instructions that was given. I am by no means an expert in guitar wiring,but i have done a little. In this case it was kinda my fault for trying to follow the diagram provided by the company that actually built the kit. It seems kinda poor to provide a wiring diagram that is totally wrong. No i havent visited guitarnuts,but thanks for the heads up.

Um actually i was hoping that i would get the kit that i payed for that includes all the parts regardless of what said kit cost. Otherwise why would you buy it? It would be kinda like buying a Kia and not getting the engine or the seats,because it didnt cost much. I am not expecting this to be a Gibson Les Paul,i am expecting it to perform like a 180 dollar guitar,and even the cheapest strat clone has a bridge and i dont even have to put it together.

Who is Brian? Where can i find him on the web or call him? i want to keep building kits,but this experience is a little disheartning.

I think youll find that the pickups you used have a different colour code, there is no internaltional standard or anything for colour coding ( some peopl use black for cround, some use green for example). you should have used the wiring diagram that came with the pickups (if it had one) or got one from the manufacturers site. Were did you get it from btw? ← I knew that there was no set wire color for pickups,but in the bridge i used a Duncan Designed Detonator,which had the diagram,and had no problems.In the neck i used a Diesel humbucker that i bought off of ebay,which had no diagram and no website that i could find,this took me the longest,but i had more problems with the rest of the wiring with the guitar. One example would be that i had 4 wires going from my switch,while the diagram had 3,none of which had the right colors. The volume pot had 2 blacks and 1 red,while the diagram said it had a red,white and blue. I bought it from Torres engineering.

Thanks for your response and i will definatley write a review on the kit when i get it. ← And my thought on the Saga kits,exspecially the LC-10 RUN SCREAMING IN THE OTHER DIRECTION FROM ANY SAGA LES PAUL STYLE KIT.DO NOT LOOK AT OR EVEN THINK OF IT!!!!!!!!!! You can read why in my post titled Saga Kits in the solid body forum

So i buy a Saga LC_10 kit hoping to have some fun and hopefully get a usuable guitar out of it. I had put together one of their strats awhile back and was looking forward to it. Well was i EVER wrong. First thing is their wiring diagram blows the big one. None of the colors match what is actually happening in reality. I have red and black with one single white wire. The way they explain it is"Now connect red with red etc blah blah " Well since i have an odd number of reds this seems kinda impossible,so i used my limited knowledge of guitar electronics to get it to work with trial and error which took me about 2 hours since i kept looking at the diagram thinking"Wow they cant suck that bad,surely they have even the slightest idea what they are doing,so connect the grey wire from the vol pot to the black wire from the pick up..........wait a second i dont have a grey wire....hmmm no grey wire. Well ill just move on to something else and see what wire is left over. Ok so connect the purple wire to the red wire from the switch......I dont have a purple wire either.......why again do i have this diagram...............????" I also made this harder on myself since i didnt use the stock pickups but still how about a diagram that matches reality? So after this freakin hassle i finish everything but the bridge and tailpiece and wouldnt you know it no,i have NO studs to connect said pieces.ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry for the rant but i thought that someone would like to know about the saga kits and how much trouble i am having.....plus it feels good to let it out sometimes.