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Recently got myself an Alexander History Lesson V3. Very nice delay pedal IMO, an update of their Quadrant Audio Mirror which I've used for some time. This is a commentary about both of them. The Quadrant felt like a big step up from old school delay pedals. First of all, there are four modes...

Am curious whether it might make a decent vintage-plus output bridge pickup in a thin sounding guitar. Fat yet detailed seems like a combination that could have off-label potential. Has anyone here tried it for anything besides jazz? PS: Anybody else think it's a bit ironic that a pickup named...

I have a RioGrande hybrid humbucker with rod-magnet coils based on their Tallboy and Halfbreed Strat pickups. Would love to have a rotary for coil choices (this pickup only, using regular 5-way blade for overall pickup selection). Am thinking four or five positions: Series, parallel, inner coil...

I have a white Burny LP Custom from the 80s. Color has darkened to a nice shade of ivory - except where the pickguard shaded it. Underneath the pickguard it's still pretty bright white, and I mostly prefer the look of Customs without a pickguard. I know UV light can age finishes, but it's not...

Redoing an HSS Strat type. Guitar's voice is pretty neutral - maybe a slight mid hump but not in a nasal way. 250K volume would eliminate needing a Superswitch and simplify the wiring somewhat. For any who have run the PB with a 250K volume, how did it sound? Among those who haven't, what would...

Musing on this while thinking about another thread; decided to start one specific to this specific particular issue. Answers here might be useful someday for those running three full sized hums also. In this case running full sized bridge & neck hums and a stack in the middle. (Stack is fairly...

Never realized this could be done without a superswitch or half-superswitch. Just wanted to make sure the diagram below is viable and correct. Wiring experts, can you please confirm? Thanks very much.

Will be rewiring an HSS superstrat type once I've repainted it. Ideally, here's what I'd like: 500K volume pot, but the two singles see 250K one tone for the bridge, one for both singles autosplit in position 2 A) Can that be done with a standard 5-way? B) If not, could it be done with a tone...

I have a PA-STK in middle position (between a PATB-1n and a PATB-3). Am rewiring the guitar to autosplit in positions 2 & 4. Am wondering if I ought to split the middle to balance with split coils from the neck or bridge. I don't want the middle overpowering them - it's singlecoily sounding but...

Rewiring a Floydcaster for autosplit in positions 2 & 4. It has Parallel Axis pickups (PATB-1n / PA-STK / PATB-3). I figure probably best to autosplit the middle too, so as not to overpower the split coils from neck or bridge. Can this be done using a standard 5-way or would it require more...

Rauta Customs has made some unusual pickups, including one that looks sorta like the offspring of a P-Rails and a Charlie Christian.

These come to mind.

Curious how they might compare, both in tone and feel. Has anybody here tried both in the same pickup? I realize the amount of degaussing is a pretty significant variable. For reference purposes, thinking along the lines of Duncan-degaussed A5s as used in the Brobucker.

Thinking about bridge hums for an HSS guitar with two vintage output singlecoils. Alder body, Fenderish neck, 250K pots. Prefer vintage-to-medium-output guitars so I don't need to redial when switching instruments. In series JB is too hot to match my vintage-output axes without tweaking the...

Or too cold. I had an aluminum neck Kramer Duke back in the 80s. When it spent a Winter night in the big wheeled trunk that held guitar cases in our truck it wasn't playable for hours until it came up closer to room temperature. The road crew would unload in the afternoon and sometimes by eight...