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For those wanting a substitute to NECK Gibson Tar-Back's (5.2k, 1.97H)...

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  • For those wanting a substitute to NECK Gibson Tar-Back's (5.2k, 1.97H)...

    Option 1 - Ask a winder to put twice 2.6k of poly insulated wire around T-Top bobbins with related slugs and screw poles, an indox 7 magnet (or a ceramic 8), a baseplate reduced to a strip under the mag, some blac epoxy to hold the whole in a cover and pay the high price due for such excentric orders.

    Option 2 - Find some 20.8k / 7.88H humbucker, mount it in neck position under a cover and wire it in parallel.

    Option 3 - Use a P.A.F. or T-Top clone with not too high DCR / inductance and wire it in parallel with some dummy coil(s) (+series resistor if needed) measuring approximatively 16k / 4H, hidden in the electronic cavity.

    Option 4 - Put some P.A.F. or T-Top clone with not too high DCR / inductance in the neck slot and... pull off its screw poles in the good old Nashville session way. :-P
    Then set it higher under the strings.
    It will lower the inductance of the pickup but reEQ it in a nice way (IOW: at the opposite of a mudbucker) while keeping its humbucker effect.
    Only downside: the sustain will drop a bit faster.

    NOTE - Bill Lawrence was definitively knowing what he was doing when he has opted for the mentioned neck pickup in 1976 Explorers... ;-)
    Duncan user since the 80's...

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    I am convinced freefrog is a mad scientist working in a secret lab somewhere.

    Best content on the forums. Much appreciated.

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