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Got a guitar I made many years ago back for repairs. It's an HSS strat style with a mahogony body and a maple neck shaft with ebony fret board. It was the one I wasn't really happy with. I made two mahogony body HSS strat back to back and one sounded great and this one just didn't. I thought it was a bit dull sounding.
The guitar has seen some rough miles and been banged around a bit. The bone nut was broken and the switch was ruined so that all the pickups were always on.
I did the repairs, and replaced the pickups and wired it up a bit different from what the guy originally wanted. The tone problem was the original pickups he wanted- which names shall be withheld to protect the guilty. I put in an old Duncan Hber (I think its a Full Shred?) in the bridge and a couple of Classic Plus (I think) noiseless SC's. I used a 500 K master vol pot and 500K tone pot for the bridge and a 250K pot on the neck .
Wow what a fantastic sounding guitar it really is. I have been testing it of course, and I just can't put it down. It is a soloist's dream. It just sings with a nice fat lead tone. With the right pickups that wood combination works great.
The guitar has seen some rough miles and been banged around a bit. The bone nut was broken and the switch was ruined so that all the pickups were always on.
I did the repairs, and replaced the pickups and wired it up a bit different from what the guy originally wanted. The tone problem was the original pickups he wanted- which names shall be withheld to protect the guilty. I put in an old Duncan Hber (I think its a Full Shred?) in the bridge and a couple of Classic Plus (I think) noiseless SC's. I used a 500 K master vol pot and 500K tone pot for the bridge and a 250K pot on the neck .
Wow what a fantastic sounding guitar it really is. I have been testing it of course, and I just can't put it down. It is a soloist's dream. It just sings with a nice fat lead tone. With the right pickups that wood combination works great.
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