Logical Frank

If it sounds thin and like a single coil. It probably is (ie you've inadvertantly wired it so the pickup is tapped)

My first thought as well. GuitarElectronics.com should have a wiring diagram for you: http://guitarelectronics.com/category/wiringresources/

Not a huge fan of the PRS-style but that top is looking gorgeous. The color is great.

It's an actual Fender Strat? I have an old Peavey Super-strat thing w/ the tone and volume like that. I actually prefer it to standard strat wiring.

Same place:

http://guitarelectronics.zoovy.com/product/CKM2S

I swear I've seen some cheaper concentric pots (and knobs) somewhere but I can't remember where. It's not Guitar Fetish.

Guitar nuts has this option:

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/bridgetone.php

(might be the same as the EJ mod but I can't get it to load at the minute)

I think what I would end up doing is either making a master tone and putting a coil splitter in the hole for the second tone knob or use three of the stacked pots for a tone/volume control that's seperate for each pickup. I just don't really like the standard strat configuration--always feels like they made a mistake wiring it or something.

I like that idea too. Is that bottom neck snakewood? Looks wicked. I might like the zebra better though--depend what you match it w/, I guess.

Nice. I bet that wood pickguard will look sweet.

There's so many of them, I just assumed they were all posted by bots. Anyway, I doubt one of the eBay accounts getting banned is going to be much of deterrent to the people behind the auctioned.

Well--the made in the U.S.A. and the Gibson logo are just parts of it trying to pass itself off as a genuine Gibson, which is the problem ultimately. I'm not sure how anyone is fooled by these but they are... It seems like I see a post on them every two weeks and half the time it's by someone who's already paid for one.

It's also a shame because a lot of times there's someone on the thread who says they were thinking of buying them knowing they were fake and inferior, which pretty much implies that the Gibson logo means more to them than owning a quality guitar and, as was mentioned, is an attitude that really ends up hurting smaller builders who actually make world-class guitars at prices that are reasonable for the high level of quality.

Oh--you're right! I was thinking about everything backwards. That makes a lot more sense. I got a couple extra capacitors to try to see what I like best.

I did this mod to my SG yesterday:

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/volpass.php

I used .001 uf caps and it sounds great on the bridge but I'd still like a little more highs to come through from the neck when I back off on the volume. Could I use a lower valued cap to get a little more highs through?

Also--this is just an idea I had--could I put a high-bypass cap on my tone control as well? I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how all this stuff works but it seems like it would be a cool mod. If my thinking is correct, this would turn the tone control into sort of a mid-scoup so I could get my amp to clean up a wee bit w/o necessarily turning down the volume.

I'm sorry. The dude is talented but this is unforgivable:

http://www.carverdoug.com/guitars/sam_bone.htm

Especially since he makes fun of the Lynch guitar which is like eight times better (but I still don't like, really).

I think there are wiring diagrams on EMG's website.

I figured as much. As I said, I've been happy w/ the pickups I've gotten from them but I've read several times that a lot of them aren't necessarily built in the same way as the pickups that they're meant to sound like.

Search on eBay for Fender Humbucker, cause not everyone knows they're called wide ranges.

Also, if you don't like waiting on eBay, and don't like the GFS option, yesterday I found an authorized dealer that actually sells the Wide-Ranges (only one I've EVER seen) so you can always do that for $72 a pickup.

Chris

Any idea if the GFS option is actually constructed like the Wide Ranger? I've been happy w/ the two sets of buckers I've bought from there but their description of their Fender pickup clone doesn't mention anything about how they're built. It's not exactly what I'm looking for anyway; I'd want the humbucking mode to be pretty nasty and high-output.

The new Sepultura stuff is actually pretty good. It's not their best stuff but I still kinda dug Roorback. Haven't heard their newest though and don't plan to unless one of my friends buys it.

Parallel would be 25% of series.... Half the rated DC resistance would mean you've only got one coil or there's something wrong w/ it.

A slighly more blue shade of purple would be perfect, I think.

Good info. Thanks!

I think purple would look really good too. I kinda like it how it is though.

Hmmm... W/ four coils it would be even better as you could still have hum-canceling even when in the "single coil" mode.

I was just fiddling w/ the coil splitter on my strat-o-thing which lets me get either the north or south coil and finding was liking chording on the north (closest to neck) coil and leads more on the south (closest to bridge) coil. I was thinking it would be cool if there were a 'bucker w/ the coils configured sort of like this:

O - Coil 1, X - Coil 2

OOOXXX

XXXOOO

That way, you could get just coil one and it would sort of simulate the angle of a strat/tele bridge pickup.

Anyway, is there anything like that out there?

I like that a lot. I prefer the appearance of the types of wood and simple finish you used to flamed/quilted blue-bursts or whatever for the most part (though I like those too!). What did you do w/ those pickup covers? Are they flush to the top of the guitar?

Never tried it. It probably works just about as good as any loud/clean amp which is to say quite well. I'd hit it w/ Rat any day of the week. Or a Muff if you want something fuzzier. You'd probably have a hell of a time getting a really tight speed metal distortion out of it though--maybe w/ a metal zone or something...

I like the shape. Is it gonna be a flat top w/ just the countours for your arm and in the cutaway or are you gonna do a carved top? Either way, It will look good, I think.