TParker2

The pickup cover screws were about maxed out for the tilt, so I couldn't adjust them much more. Hence the idea of raising the poles. But, Curtisa you are were right on making me think something else through. I made the covers from pretty thick plastic. By drilling out holes in the covers a bit more I did get it to tilt a bit more. Its sounding pretty balanced now. Very cool Bizman. I'll give it a try with the one pot. I guess I should go ahead and order the real thing for the next project though. Instead of doing the humbucker or p90 I"m thinking more of putting the original jazzmaster pickup back in. But this time putting it closer to the neck pickup to take some of the shrill out of it. How close can I place them? On a cheap P90 I've improved the sound by place a metal bar on its bottom. Maybe that's a better way to go? Suggestions?

I'm working on the guitar I pictured above again. Can't go to the community woodworking shop right now to start the projects I want to do. I took out the jazzmaster pickup from the bridge because its just too shrill for my taste. Put in a TV Jones humbucker. It's an odd bird now. Neck sounds really woody and the bridge sounds kind of brass horn like. Much to my surprise, when you select both it the jazzmaster pickup that you hear the most. So as usual, looking for advise from the veterans on the page. *Instead of the humbucker or jazzmaster pickup in the bridge maybe a _______________. Mixing the two sound unique, but any other ideas? Maybe a telecaster bridge? *I'm not happy with the jazzmaster pickup volume on the E,A,D strings. Even with the amp lows turned up this just isn't doing it. I've read about two methods of fixing this. One is to add a little metal to the top of the pole pieces to raise them closer to the string. The other is to heat the pickup and push the poles up higher if need be..... but this is risky on the E. *Making a Blend Pot- can you do this with just a normal pot? I was thinking, what if you just put each pickup on the outside lugs and the swiper on the output? I've seen specialty pots for this, but wondering if it is really needed.

Joensuu.... by blender do you mean a blender of the two pickups. Yeah, I got thinking about that last night. That would make sense for when I select both pickups! Think that is a definite go. Yeah mistermekev, it is going to be a ton of wire in the guitar. The drawing I've worked up looks is kind of nuts. Plenty of room and I'm not worried about confusion since I plan to just keep it mine. Should I consider a different arrangement too keep things shorter on the runs?Maybe both tone controls at the top and both volumes at the bottom? What do you mean by slitting. Sorry very new to this. Is this splitting the coils thing? Or coil tapping? Just to hear how it sounds I put the p90 in another guitar that has cheap pickups. Doesn't have much hum. Guess the house is grounded very well and no 60 cycle lighting. But, that guitar does have a strange sound when I switch to both p90. Is that an out of phase thing? Got one flipped wrong?

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Finished designing what I hope will be my dream guitar. Body is Ash and chambered. F hole is there for looks, but might help give some feedback. Neck is a shallow U shape with a Gretsch style headstock. Used that shape instead of the standard fender design in that.... well I'm kind of bitter that I spent my younger years trying to get my fingers to fit in the narrow spacing of a Strat neck. I smaller fingers or much more talent! I don't like having the jack in the front of the guitar. Going to mount it in the bottom. Pickups- the front is a TV Jones P90 and the back is a TV Jones hum-bucker. Controls- yeah weird I know. My plan is to set it up more like a Gibson. Top dials will control the neck. First two knobs on bottom will control the bridge. Not sure what I'll do with third knob. Switches- The top has on and off switches for tone on each pickup. I'm not going to go with a normal three way selector switch in that I have a hard time slapping the switch to the middle position when playing. What I'm thinking is make the first switch a selector between the two pickups. The second switch would be a on and off for selecting both pickups. I'm putting flat paddle switches on the guitar to help me catch them with the guitar pick. Think I got this crazy wiring figured out..... but will post pictures of the schematic to get some feedback. And yes I'm worried all the wiring will rob the think of tone. Maybe the third knob could be a bypass switch that runs the pickups without tone and volume controls?