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Yep. It's not too dissimilar from Duncan's 59/Custom hybrid (same swapped coil idea), or the Westone UBC (although that had one coil at 50% of the other one).

1000034170.jpg Also made this. An idea I've had for a while based on internet hokum from years ago where you'd get 2 humbuckers and take one coil from each and swap them over, so you'd have 1 coil from a JB and one from say a 59 in the same pickup. So here we have one coil with 43 awg to 8.2k (6666...

1000034203.jpg This is good fun. Alnico 2, asymmetrical coils totalling 14.1k, splits to 6.5k. Since the inductance will be lower with the skinny wire I'm using bigass poles (m5x20mm) once again to bring back some chunk. Alnico 2 is a weak magnet so we'll see how this goes, I predict very round and...

1- tight ish. If you want to use the trem, don't screw them flush. 2- some do, others don't. I always do. 3- usual places. Fendershop.co.nz probably has them. I think they're m5 arms for that block. 4- not a problem. 5- mint green, parchment, aged cream would look better than white unless you're goi...

The pickup train rolls on. Experimenting with higher output stuff I concocted a variant on the Super Distortion but wanted to try something using humungous grub screws. The SD uses m5x12mm grubs, I bought and installed a bunch of m6x20mm grubs and used the same double thickness ceramic magnet the SD...

The 500t is great fun. The Tremonti treble pickup in Marks signature USA model was based off of that. It's the one with triple ceramic magnets (it uses magnets as spacers) and wound to around 16k which was quite daring from Gibson. There's a cocked wah tone I can't unhear from it but it definitely h...

Nice. Edwards do a guitar called the Potbelly that looks sorta kinda similar but MIJ which that reminded me of.

Yeah that looks par for the course. It's a cheapy guitar. They're not going to pack it full of awesome stuff.

You can remagnetise pickups polarity but you can get a kickass set by Fleor or Donlis for like $40 so I'm not really sure it's worth the hassle.

Those tuners and stamp at the back of the neck are a hallmark of 80s Korean cheapy guitars, which probably means Samick made it. They were making 50% of the world's guitars around that time. Ok . Now I have discovered the potted staggered pickups are all the same polarity ! That is not how the mode...

Those tuners and stamp at the back of the neck are a hallmark of 80s Korean cheapy guitars, which probably means Samick made it. They were making 50% of the world's guitars around that time. Thanks . I also just received a reply from furrier Zane Obrien of Legend guitars in Canada. He thinks it was...

Those tuners and stamp at the back of the neck are a hallmark of 80s Korean cheapy guitars, which probably means Samick made it. They were making 50% of the world's guitars around that time.

They live.
And installed in the Greco EW:
They sound very big.

Well that was fun.

A2, 7k neck. A8, 11k bridge.

My thanks to speed paints and dry brushing.

Woohoo... That kicks ass. Congrats. Where do you get your parts? A combination of the parts drawer, AliExpress, eBay, Amazon. Nice. Did you build your own winder? I sense a new project on the horizon :think: :lol: No, but I borrowed the one my mate built, which is essentially a plank of Rimu with a...

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NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 9:57 am This was quite a rewarding experience.

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Woohoo... That kicks ass. Congrats.
Where do you get your parts?

A combination of the parts drawer, AliExpress, eBay, Amazon.