Recent content by b3john

I did enjoy the history lesson. :) One question... I have a pair of Area 61 singlecoils in an alder HSS Strat and I was looking at finding a Pearly Gates Plus for the bridge. However... After reading Evan's post saying the PG+ was specifically matched to the Texas Specials, I'm thinking a...

OK, I'm chasing down a PG+ to go with a pair of Area '61s in an HSS Mexi Strat. This will be wired for autosplit at position 2, volume will be an RS 280K SuperPot, master tone will be a CTS 250K, the "second tone" knob will actually be a piezo volume, Callaham trem block, etc. The only PG+...

Check out these hybrid Strats with Tele stylin's, masterbuilt by Yuriy Shiskov from the Custom Shop. Fender's calling them "Nashville Strats". The orange one sold in less than a day: This one in a natural showed up tonight: Tele pickguard/switch/bridge plate/bridge pickup, even a side...

I'm moving on to the third phase of my Black Strat project, this time with "noiseless" pups... (Phase one was the EMG DG-20. Phase two was an SSL-5 in the bridge and two CS '69s with the Suhr BPSSC system that didn't pan out as well as I had hoped, 60-cycle hum-wise.) So I'll be replacing...

New guy with probably an old question... I'm in the second phase of my noiseless Gilmour Strat projects; this one will have the SSL-5 bridge pup, with probably a CS '69 in the middle and CS Fat '50s in the neck to start.* My question is whether anyone has any specific experience with the Suhr...