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enlarge would be a better work actually. my gotoh bridge has tiny grooves, i suppose you could play 9s all the way across, but thats really no fun. does anyone just leave their bridge how it is?

i got a nice bone nut, but its a bit short for the guitar it's goin on. is it ok to shim it with a thin piece of wood?

this is an interesting one.  Opposite polarity is the starting point, but the coils dont have to be identical.  I have two Hb,s which when cut to single coils have different resistances (ie different number of turns), of 4k and 6k respectively.  They cancell out all hum.  It also worls if an SC is in parallel with a series twin-coil with coils out-of-phase with each other.  This worls for me, and a 12k out-of-phase Hb camcells out hum with a 4k Sc.  It also works on a Strat.  Wire your neck and bridge pups in series, all in parallel with the middle (which is RWRP), and one pup cancells hum from two!.

Its magic!  The sounds are very close to that of the lower impedance pup, but no hum.  Hence these arrangements,are very useful.

Why does it work?  My theory is on my site  http://au.geocities.com/guitarcircuits

find the page called 'Cancell that hum' and the heading 'Hum cancelling with three active pickups'

Clearly there must be some limits to how different two pups can be and still cancell.  I think it needs both pups, or pairs of coils to be wound with similar wire, on a similar core geometry.  That way, the more turns you have, the proportionallly more hum it picks up, but also the more impedance the coil has, all in proportion and these two effects compensate.

regards

John

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alright, seriously now, who actaully plays with coils out of phase. im not too big on that sound, yes that cancels the noise in common, but it cancels a lot of the sound in common that i want. so then answer this, how do you make a hum reduced single coil, alone. start there, then you can find out how to make a mismatched humbucker (in phase!) that cancels hum. when you say two coils mismatched in series are quiet, but two matched coils in series are quieter, then the mismatched coils are not hum cancelling. you are avoiding the problem by coming up with solutions that halfway work. im writing a paper on this for school, but mostly i want to know how for my own personal use. i like the sound of my pickups, but if they were silent, that would be an improvement

I know it's possible, i have proof in my guitar. a set of lace sensor drop n gains. i've been experimenting with winding my own pickups, but i cant figure out how to achieve hum cancelling with two mismatched coils in series. my friends dad said the inductance had to be the same to cancel hum, but the resistance didnt matter.......i would assume inductance and resistance go hand in hand then......im kinda lost there though... can anyone help me out?

I think i might try it in the middle, im deffinitely not touching my drop n gains, but i would mod the pickup ring. i dont want to route too close to the neck on my sg because the neck isnt the most stable as it is. as for looking stock, 2 drop n gains, a sd invader, bigsby, planet waves locking tuners, schaller roller bridge on an sg goth threw the stock look out the window. dont even get me started on the electronics.....jimi page push/pulls and a distortion pre........i badly sprained my wrist skateboarding on sunday so i'll have to give it a week at least till i can play guitar or even breadboard stuff. i'll let you know how its going when i get started!

Has anyone done a humbucking type sustainer? as in two 4 ohm coils in series? it seems like it would have more area to vibrate the stings and possibly work better on the higher strings..... also i was wondering if a sustainer would work ok in the middle position (supposing i have a 3 humbucker guitar......). does that coil have to have a bar magnet or a steel bar through it? normal pole pieces wont work? Thanks for any info

actually on their package it gives you an edge guide and tells you to use that

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So what's the problem?

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..........i believe i said the edge guide only works on fender style headstocks, 6 inline, since this is a curved headstock, 3+3, it doesnt work

actually on their package it gives you an edge guide and tells you to use that

has anyone tried this? i have an old beater guitar layin around that i wouldnt mind saving. i got it for 50$ so i dont really care what happens to it, it is a jay turser les paul bolt on. if i can do the bolt on to set neck conversion, i plan on putting a real top on it.....real wood. im not a big fan of the 1/16th inch plywood and paint top on it now.

i already have these tuners and thats what im going to use. im putting this guitar together for a friend and these are the tuners he chose. he's going with the nickel color scheme

Sweet, that came out very very clean! i removed the truss rod cover and the nut hangs over the truss rod hole which gave me a good spot to wiggle it with my needle nose plyers. it was kind of tough to grab from the side because one side is flat, the other curved, being a gibson style nut. i scored everything with the finest razor i could find just in case, even though the guitar was finished prior to the nut being put on. i taped a business card flush against the nut to protect the fretboard from anything. i grabbed the nut on either side and gently wiggled it free from the glue then went back to the middle and it came out really nice. Thanks for all the help!

Hey, it is 3x3, i was hoping for a slight contour, it is a gibson style headstock. there were tuners before, but they didnt work so well. the tuners i have to put on are sperzel locking tuners. they just have a post that bites into a hole that you drill, no screw. unfortunately, it is on the opposite side of the tuner hole as the screw hole.

i need to remove the cheap plastic nut from a guitar i have, im replacing it with a bone nut. since it is a cheap guitar, im assuming the nut is superglued or wood glued in (yes, the luthiers nightmare). thanks for any help!

im about to put a new set of tuners on a guitar i have, but i dont want it to look like one of those gibsons at guitar center. whats the best way to get all the tuners lined up properly? the tuners came with an edge guide, which doesnt really work for a gibson style headstock........ since it isnt flat on either side like a fender style headstock.

Howdy,

I just received my fancy new pre made "stratocaster type body" i purchased off ebay.  With the excitement of a child at christmas i tore the packaging open, and found a black and shiney stratISH body.  to my amazement it came with a pickguard. great i think, so i pull out the pre wired pickguard i bought, my new tremolo bridge and got ready to attach.  oh no wait. this thing is a piece of crap. 

1. the pickguard was the wrong shape.

2. the routing didn't fit the pots

3. the holes were misalligned

4. the tremolo cavity was too narrow and thus useless

5. the holes in the pickguard didn't fit the screws

6. the holes for the bridge were too narrow and also too shallow

7. the "bathtub routing" went so deep the body was paper thin between the rear and front routing

8. the jackplate actually fit to my amazement

9. the neck socket was crap. nice and tight, but useless. small gaps here and there. terrible

10. when i attempted to attach my non functioning tremolo springs the screws ripped out of the body (ouch that one hurt) this revealed a large crap going horizontally through the body.

crap crap crap crap crap

moral of the story.  build it yourself, or buy a real one. don't buy it on ebay, there's a lot of crap out there.  avoid "acoustic angel" on ebay and don't be as naive as me.

bouli

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thats what you get for getting a strat body with the worst tremolo system ever invented

You wouldn't believe how many bad fretjobs and crooked tuners I saw when I was looking for a Les Paul during the past year. It's pathetic. If they didn't have the holy grail of tone, Gibson wouldn't be worth looking at anymore.

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yea, the gibson body/necks are all i like gibsons for. everything else on the guitar goes

I'll 3rd the Ibanez Artcore thing. I bought one about a year ago, with the same thing in mind as you. I like it so much I haven't touched a thing on it yet. In comparion to the Epiphone dots, the Ibanez is a MUCH better value.

    Both GFS and TV'tron make humbucker sized filtertron like pickups. I may still drop a set in my Ibanez, but its not on my short list at the moment.

George

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it seems like the artcore is the way to go. i played a used one in guitar center that was set up pretty badly, but i checked the neck felt pretty good and such. i dont believe in gfs filtertrons, a friend of mine got a 'hot' one for bridge position, i measured the resistance in series: i believe it was about 14 k....... filtertrons measure around 4k. they also dont use 42 awg formvar wire, i believe they used 43 awg poly wire. gfs also uses ceramic magnets in one of their "filtertrons", where gretsch uses alnico 5.

i prefer to wind my own coils, they turn out much better than gfs or seymore duncans. the second pickup i wound was an invader copy, threw it in my friends epi sheraton and that pickup screams through his pignose. its less sterile sounding than the invader. the only pickups i like enough to stick them in my guitars are bartolinis (bass) and lace sensor. so theres my speil about pickups......

if tvjones pickups were a bit less pricey i would grab a set, but i will just wind my own pickups

im kinda lookin for a hollowbody guitar that i can customize just how i want but im not lookin for the huge pricetag. preferably with mini humbuckers or filtertron'ish pickups......is there such a thing? believe me if i wasnt paying for college and had a spare 2 grand i would buy a gretsch so fast......but since that isnt the case im lookin for a project. i wind my own pickups so i plan on rewinding or straight up replacing whatevers on it. slap a bigsby, lockin tuners, tone switch, roller bridge and maybe even a preamp on and i'll be set. has anyone played an oscar schmitd? or any of those fairly cheap ones on eebs? thanks for the help

Wetting it will make it more flexable to go in the hole easier...

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that sounds pretty good. i was thinkin masking tape at first but i will see how this goes. thanks for all the help! ill let ya know how it turns out

My newly built guitar is done, and Because I thought Mahogany would be too heavy, I got Obeche, and it's too light... because there's only 1 pickup in the guitar, and a light HT bridge.

So . ' . (therefore) I have a neck heavy guitar.

Does anyone have any recommendations to fix this?  Weights?  routing in the back and putting in weights? haha, mercury injection?

thanks.

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One technique I've heard is to tape a 9-volt (or 2 or 3) to the strap at the bridge-side strap pin...

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nah dude, that doesnt work.... i never heard that, but i have a 9 volt taped there anyway for my active electronics on my sg........

i wasnt really thinking of 10 years down the road... its just an sx....i would love to dowel those fools, but i dont have a drill press at my disposel

i wish i could do that, it would make life easier. but, my friend is going for the nickel color scheme, and the new bridge poles dont fit in the old studs, threads are a different size. on my sg, i got a roller bridge and the bridge studs were tiny so i tapped them into the old bridge studs. worked great. also made life easier......

i just pulled the old bridge studs out of a project im doing for a friend, turns out the new studs are just barely smaller than the old ones, so they dont bite into the wood... whats the best way to deal with this problem?

In my guitar, i have 3 pickups, the neck and bridge are on your standard 3 way switch, and the middle is on an on/off switch. what i've always wanted to do in a future 3 humbucker guitar is get a 5 way rotary switch and a gibson type 3 way, wire the middle and bridge pickups like a 2 humbucker strat on the 5 way switch, and then wire that whole harness to the bridge pin of the gibson 3 way switch. that way you can get every combination easily + the coil taps and such, i love switches and hate knobs.