Recent content by Ace Flibble

This old Reverb listing shows a pair of Phat Cats with the covers taken off, allegedly. I've never taken the cover off of an actual SD Phat Cat to be sure that's what's under there, however I have taken the covers off some other hum-sized P-90s and usually it is something along those lines. Some...

It is indeed Lake Placid Blue. There were a few years when Fender was using it for MIM Standard Strats with a fractionally teal and duller colour to make it look very slightly aged. Fender's LPB, both this dulled version and the as-new tone, are always a little darker and more intense in colour...

The problem: picked up an ultra-light basswood HH Tele because it feels and looks great (and my spine needs an occasional break from my Gibsons and PRS), but the tone from the stock SD '59 and JB wasn't where I want it to be. I've tried a few replacements already and have the neck pickup sorted...

I dusted off an old Schecter earlier (a 006, I forget which specific model; it's been in the attic for a decade) and gave it a quick bash, decided I quite like it and will clean it up, give it another chance to rock. It's an HS config and the neck single coil sounds pretty good, some kind of...

I'm usually very confident choosing pickups, but this one has me stumped and I could do with some input. I have two guitars with middle pickups. Both are ESP Horizons, identical wood and hardware. One is HSH and the other is HHH. I prefer the feel and look of the HHH guitar but I've never been...

Had a Les Paul Studio as my all-round guitar for a while, with Full Shreds in both positions and the tone knobs ripped out. Love the neck pickup, but the bridge has always felt a tiny bit lacking in terms of sheer output and it's time to sort that out. The tonal balance is spot-on, I just wish...

I'm looking to replace the bridge pickup in a mongrel parts build I have. Swamp ash body, bolt-on baseball bat-thick maple neck with rosewood fretboard, 24.75" scale with a tune-o-matic bridge. So it's not as bright and thin as your typical Fender, but it's still nowhere near as warm as a...

As title suggests. I love the sound of the Pearly Gates Plus and am looking for a neck pickup to pair it with. I like my neck pickups to be clear but not mid-scooped. I play a wide variety of styles - everything from blues to pop-rock to gothic metal - and my neck pickups pretty much only get...

The patient in this case is a Charvel San Dimas Style 2. Solid alder body, bolt-on maple neck and fretboard, non-recessed Floyd Rose, one single master volume control (I think it's a 500k) and a 3-way toggle switch. Current humbuckers are the stock Seymour Duncan 59 in the neck and JB trembucker...

Pretty much as the title says, I'm looking for a pickup that has the same kind of tone as the Alnico II Pro humbucker (regular version, not Slash model), but that has a little more output (say, DC resistance measuring in the 10-14k area) and very slightly tighter bass. The guitar it's going in...

I've got these two sitting around and I'm finally putting them to some use in a HSH set up. Specificially what I've got is a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat neck model with a nickel (or is it chrome?) cover, about a year old and a Fender Texas Special middle pickup, about two years old and I believe it...

I've got a Les Paul with two humbuckers (both with four conductor wiring), the usual 3-way toggle and four control pots, one of which is a push-pull. What I'm trying to get is this: P-p down: Bridge humbucker (both coils wired series) Bridge humbucker (both coils, series) parallel and out of...

(Should be) pretty straight forward, I'm fine at following diagrams and schematics but not terribly great at working out for myself what wire and tab does what, so I just want to double check that I have this right. What I want to do is have a bridge humbucker that is always wired in series, a...

I've got a Firebird that I'm pretty much entirely rebuilding, and I've come to switching out the pickups. I never use the normal middle position sound of two humbuckers, it does nothing for me; what I usually do is either wire them out of phase or I install a push-push and wire that to make them...

Been trying to work this out while battling to install a TB-5. Every other company manages to make F-spaced humbuckers which are, overall, the same dimensions as regular humbuckers. They all fit the same old mounting rings, easy to swap covers on, etc. Why is it that Seymour Duncan make their...