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I have accumulated quite a few single-coils from Squiers etc. Those with either one ceramic bar in the middle or two side by side. They usually have nickel-plated poles and I doubt material underneath is actually alnico. Is there any particular use fot them as-is? I am actually saving them...

Has anyone tried to wire a P/J combo in series? Like wiring a regular jazz bass in series. Probably the majority of these have the two P-bass pickups wired in series. Would adding another coil in series rather than parallel bring out too much mud? I already tried these mods on a few J-basses...

Simple question - how should you hit the string with your thumb when slapping? In a piano hammer fashion or do you actually make a partial downstroke like with a pick?

I really don't know if this should be a string rant or Warwick rant. I need to install a 135s set on a Warwick with two-piece bridge that only takes a tapered B string (130+). I know that from my past experience. Does anyone except Warwick sell sets with a tapered B string? Warwick makes these...

I got one Fender noiseless that has the upper coil broken at the start and wasn't salvageable at all. Instead of paying me, the customer left this dead pickup in my shop as an learning aid. I decided to rewind the top coil just for the fun of it. I am always finetuning my neck pup sound and it...

If you have a 16ohm cab with 4x16ohm speakers, two different models of speakers, would it make a difference in if you put mismatched pair of speakers in series instead of matching them? Or would it sound the same because common load is still mandated by parallel wiring between the pairs?

Here's the deal. It's a Fender noiseless pup that's not working at all, no continuity between the leads. After some time inspecting it I found that the upper coil has the start of the winding broken just where it exits the winding and wraps around the eyelets (in Fender's case it actually goes...

Just found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8OYeN9mAL4 Anyone has a bass to try? I have relatively fresh strings on and still retaining the zing and brilliance. I am really curious if this actually works. I have a hunch it would only work on really old and dried up strings, not a pack...

I have a customer with a Suhr Pro Series, has a Gotoh 510 trem on it. This guys plays sets about 5-7 hrs long, playing in high and low temps, outdoors and indoors. This started happening this summer, we had high peaks of unbearable heat, and he started poping the D string right at the saddle. A...

I was just asked to design a partial capo to cover only the E, A and D strings. Is there anything out there already? I was thinking maybe taking a Dunlop trigger type and splitting the rubber padding. Or do the same with the C-clamp style. The overhang worries my the most because I think the...

I have an amp head I want to try out, but I don't have a dedicated cab for it. I was thinking of using my 212 combo loaded with two seventy-80 Celestions, 80W@8 Ohm each. The head is 50W and it's got one 16ohm and two 8 ohm speaker outs. My combo has the wires dangling out of the amp housing...

I got a cheapo Ibanez bass with a J-bass configuration pups, two singles, 2V, 1T. I might be throwing some cheap Toneriders in it in near future (or just save up and get Duncans instead), but I wanted to try the blend pot first. While these pickups are wired in parallel maxing out the vol pots...

Hey guys. I got a Strat in the shop, it has a JB Jr. in the bridge with genuine mid and neck pups (the mid is obviously RW/RP). Initial issue was that the position 2 was out of phase and it needed a new output jack. Black was hot, green was ground, so I just reversed that and it sounded as it...

A guy brought in a Squier 72 Tele with Duncan Designed P90. The neck pup was below the pickguard but the screws were still holding. This is why the guitar came in. I screwed it back up and it was snug as it could be. I could never get that pickup drop down again. After removing the pickguard and...

Hey guys. Since my repair business is growing very fast many people expressed their opinion I should try and make guitars as well. First of all, if I ever get to a point of building a few guitars on my own, this will still be a side-project to my repairs. Just recently I found a couple of...