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well I guess I got outdated info, then.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.

Indeed. Although I like push/push pots even more. A tap, and it's done.

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.

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

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.

In regards to string breakage, have you tried graphite saddles on your Wilkie? I'll bet ya dollars-to-donuts that would cure most of your string breaking.

Also, where was the string breaking: Saddle? Nut? Above the pickups? Above the fretboard?

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...

That flame looks nice, are you shooting for a Les Paul style single cut, or is it your own design?

Lindy Fralin is an amazing boutique pickup maker that specializes in vintage pickups. If you get Duncans, I think a Pearly Gates/'59 neck would be great, and so would the Seth Lovers. A good DiMarzio set would be Virtual Hot PAF/Virtual PAF Neck.

I can't wait to see (and hear) the finished product.

Oh Jesus Christ, thanks be to lovekraft!

*sings a song of rejoicement and gratitude*

You're just replacing the bridge pickup?

Tone Zone isn't really the way to go if you're looking for an SRV sound. True single coils like a Blue Velvet set would suit you better.

So more mass doesn't increase sustain or anything like that?

I've also heard brass saddles are brighter, this is all just myth?

So what are the differences in tone between these metals? I was probably going to buy an aluminum bridge, but I just wanted to get some feedback.

Ok, I've tried to the best or my ability, but I keep getting stuck on making a way for the black and white (I'm wiring DiMarzio's) wires to come together for series, but stay apart in positions 2 and 4 for parallel.

So if someone could help me, even give me a hint, that would be awesome.

I'd like to wire my guitar with this wiring:

http://www.ibanez.com/wiring/wire.asp?y=2004&w=RGT42FM

I've got 2 humb seymour duncan: 59 in the neck and Invader in the bridge...

On my yamaha rgx421d I've got the same switch...

can you indicate me what color correspond to the SD pickup??

Thanks...

PS: I'm sorry for my bad bad english

In alternative can I wire my guitar in this way with my switch:

Bridge

Bridge coil tap

Inner coil of both humb

neck coil tap

neck

Ola

Red=Black

Black=White

White=Green

Blue=Red

I could do that but I don't know if I would get it right, also, I'm not quite sure how this switch works, so anyone who could help would go a long way in helping to do that.

Could someone show me how to wire a 2 hum guitar with Dimarzios, 1 vol 1 tone with a super switch that has the following positions:

1.Bridge Humbucker Series

2.Bridge Humbucker Parallel

3.Inner Coils Series

4.Neck Humbucker Parallel

5.Neck Humbucker Series

Thanks a bunch.

If you want it the other way round (why?!) then pot is on the bottom

I have mine that way, because I usually keep it in SC mode, I just pull up for high gain stuff.