I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

[mrid]

At my local guitar shop there is a Line 6 guitar routed for, get this, PASSIVE PICKUPS! It has a single coil in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge. Is this not the epitome of irony and hilarity?

[Mkf411]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

Was it like this from the factory or had it been modified?

[BS123]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

At my local guitar shop there is a Line 6 guitar routed for, get this, PASSIVE PICKUPS! It has a single coil in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge. Is this not the epitome of irony and hilarity?

Sounds like someone modded a Variax?? Line 6 doesn't have anything like that in production or on the design block. I'd like to hear more about this...

BTW, did it look kind of like this but with a different pickup config?

[nuntius]

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Actually I think that would be a good idea.

The majority of the Line 6 models seem to be catered towards vintage stuff, if you could put more modern sounding passive pups in there you could cover yet more bases still.

That said its probably been modified post-factory

[y2stevo]

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Wow and that variax looks 10 times better than hey way the normal "stock" one does,(In other words it looks pretty good as its not very asthetically pleasing stock IMO)

[BS123]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

The majority of the Line 6 models seem to be catered towards vintage stuff, if you could put more modern sounding passive pups in there you could cover yet more bases still.

That's a growing need over at the Line 6 Forum. More and more people are wanting modern models such as pickups. The "WorkBench" might take care of this...

[mrid]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

BTW, did it look kind of like this but with a different pickup config?

Yep, it looked as if it was pretty well done.

[aleclee]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

I know a few folks have done this. Also, Warmoth offers bodies where you can drop the Variax electronics in. They're routed for magnetic pickups and you can presumably switch between the two if not mix and match.

[InstituteOfNoise]

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The Line 6 Workbench software is pretty amazing. I've seen it in early forms at one of our Line 6 usergroup meetings. You can do things like change the cap values, put pickups on top of each other, or even on the neck itself, angle it any way you want (within reason). Once it's released, you will be nothing short of amazed!

[BS123]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

The Line 6 Workbench software is pretty amazing. I've seen it in early forms at one of our Line 6 usergroup meetings. You can do things like change the cap values, put pickups on top of each other, or even on the neck itself, angle it any way you want (within reason). Once it's released, you will be nothing short of amazed!

I'm right there with you!

[Zerberus]

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I canīt remember which Board it was on, but about 6 months ago somebody routed out his Tele for Variax guts (in addition to Mag. PUs) and IIRC achieved pretty decent results

[BS123]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

I canīt remember which Board it was on, but about 6 months ago somebody routed out his Tele for Variax guts (in addition to Mag. PUs) and IIRC achieved pretty decent results

That would be Jeff Miller....

Jeff Miller's TeleAx mods

There have been a couple of other players to successfully do this too.

[McLaughysSN]

Re: I saw a funny-looking Line 6 guitar the other day...

thats actually pretty sweet looking (the teleax)

if it had some dumby p'ups in there i'd say it would be perfect looking and probably a great sounding guitar

[Zerberus]

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That would be Jeff Miller....

Jeff Miller's TeleAx mods

There have been a couple of other players to successfully do this too.

Thanks Butch. I thought of Jeff, but for some reason my mind didnīt draw the connection