JohnA

PhoenixCreations said something about how he doesn't want the pickups to be sterile. This is interesting, because I often find that more sterile flat pickups sound great with heavy distortion. A fuller pickup would probably overload and get muddy under more distortion, although it would sound great clean. Obviously, this is an 'all-the-time, every-single-pickup' kind of deal, but it seems to hold generally true.

well I guess I got outdated info, then. Thanks for the update.

DiMarzio Super Distortion/Super 2 in the neck would be a good combo. Mixing active and passive pickups is not usually a good idea, you get a drastic change in volume.

You will probably need to sand it in order to get the neck to fit, nevermind any tonal considerations.

The California company is the real one, the person in Bethlehem making pickups under the Bill Lawrence name is a former partner of the company. The name Bill Lawrence does not refer to any person, it's just the name of the company.

Oh, like the S-1 switching on the American Strat? Those are really cool, is there a place to buy those?

With DiMarzio pickups, I believe you would solder the black and white wires to the wiper (center lug) and connect the left lug to ground.

Sounds good! I'll dig around some more. Thanks, Robert Irizarry Yeah, I looked, but I couldn't find it. It had a rosette (it was a solidbody) and had string trees behind the bridge.

I saw someone who rear-routed their pickup cavity on here, it looked like how I think you want it to.

I would suggest locking tuners and graphite as well. A TremSetter will also help a lot if it's got a tremolo.

This is a great site that I found that offers component at wholesale prices. The variety is great, and I'm planning to get all of my electronics from them until I find a site that maybe ships a little faster. www.futurlec.com $0.50 a pot, $0.05 a cap. No more bull Radio Shack prices for me.

Yeah, I have a Wilkinson, it used to break strings twice a week util I got some GraphTech saddles. I haven't broken a string since.

On second thought, it would be way too easy to nick the rod adjust nut.

Hey, I just bought one of these! Let me know how it turns out.

I just wanted to bounce this idea around and get some opinons: I've an Ibanez, and I need to adjust the neck. The truss cavity at the headstock is too small for my tools to fit in,so I had an idea to widen it with a Dremel. It should just get covered by the cover, right? Shouldn't weaken the neck either...