Opinions on the EVERYTHING AXE™ LOADED PICKGUARD

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Opinions on the EVERYTHING AXE™ LOADED PICKGUARD

Anybody tried one of these loaded pickguards? Can it still quack and chime a bit? How hard is the wiring? I've replaced pickups in my 74 Strat partscaster before although the last time I had the 3 Lace Sensors installed by a tech.

https://www.seymourduncan.com/pickup/everything-axe-pickguard

Another, similar setup: Hot Rails (humbucker) in the bridge, Vintage Rails in the middle (single coil) and Cool Rails in the neck (humbucker/single coil split).

https://youtu.be/bGeh9FwYCqs

This "74" isn't vintage so modifications aren't a problem.

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Burnhaven said:
How hard is the wiring?
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Welcome to the forum. As far as wiring goes, the whole point of the loaded pickguard is that all the wiring is done for you. You just need to connect two wires, hot and ground, to the output jack. Possibly a ground wire to the bridge.

The "Everything Axe" set is a nice place to start if you're new to Duncan pups. It will give you some nice tonal options, and all the positions are humbucking.
 
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ArtieToo said:
Welcome to the forum. As far as wiring goes, the whole point of the loaded pickguard is that all the wiring is done for you. You just need to connect two wires, hot and ground, to the output jack. Possibly a ground wire to the bridge.

The "Everything Axe" set is a nice place to start if you're new to Duncan pups. It will give you some nice tonal options, and all the positions are humbucking.
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Sounds good. I'm probably looking for tones in similar to John Mayer using a strat, Clapton, Bryan Adam and especially Mark knopfler
 
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You just wire the hot and ground wire for the jack, and the bridge ground wire. That being said, I don't know if the Everything Axe is stratty enough for what you want. It can kinda give a Strat sound, but the Classic or California pickguard will certainly do the Stratty thing a lot better.
 
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Mincer said:
You just wire the hot and ground wire for the jack, and the bridge ground wire. That being said, I don't know if the Everything Axe is stratty enough for what you want. It can kinda give a Strat sound, but the Classic or California pickguard will certainly do the Stratty thing a lot better.
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These are always tough choices but since these low output Lace Sensor Golds have been in the guitar for 20 years I really want to try something else. In the video the user put in the everything axe set with coil split. I had a Carvin AE185 once with that and at the time didn't thing splitting a humbucker sounded great, but I knew a lot less about tone back then.

https://youtu.be/PcLP0d_a70A

Coil split toggle switches added in 902D loaded pickguard:
https://920dcustom.com/collections/...duncan-everything-axe-w-2-toggles-wh-bk-bk-hw
 
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That's not a bad deal considering everything that's included. I've got a couple things from the 920D folks. Good people to deal with.
 
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I’m concerned the everything axe set might not get what you are looking for. I’ve never been impressed by Lace Sensors, and the only one in your list that implies them is Clapton for his live tones in the 80’s forward. (Those tones pale in comparison to his 70’s Strat tones and 60’s Gibson tones, IMO).

I’d try something like this:
STK-S7 for the neck
STK-S4m for the middle
STK-S6 for the bridge

All classic Strat tones, much more notch quack for Mayer, Clapton and Knopfler and still stronger than typical Strat pickups so you don’t feel like they are anemic or weak.
 
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PFDarkside said:
I’m concerned the everything axe set might not get what you are looking for. I’ve never been impressed by Lace Sensors, and the only one in your list that implies them is Clapton for his live tones in the 80’s forward. (Those tones pale in comparison to his 70’s Strat tones and 60’s Gibson tones, IMO).

I’d try something like this:
STK-S7 for the neck
STK-S4m for the middle
STK-S6 for the bridge

All classic Strat tones, much more notch quack for Mayer, Clapton and Knopfler and still stronger than typical Strat pickups so you don’t feel like they are anemic or weak.
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I currently have SSL-2s with a SSL-6T bridge in my Strat, but I'm curious about this setup.

Would you wire it with a standard 5-way switch, or would you use a super switch for some sort of auto-split in positions 2 & 4? With my current setup I'd maybe like a little bit more output in the neck position, and hum-canceling would be a nice bonus. I almost never use the tap on the SSL-6, so I'd be OK with losing that option if need be. Would splitting the STK-S6 give me a similar sound?
 
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You know, if you really are looking to get outside of the stereotypical Strat world, the Everything Axe set should be great.
 
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PFDarkside said:
You know, if you really are looking to get outside of the stereotypical Strat world, the Everything Axe set should be great.
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I'm convinced.

My strat is on the right... virtual design with black pickguard/pickups on the left

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