Recent content by Halfapizza

A long time ago I tried to change the heights of the pole pieces on my set of Alnico 2 staggered single coils. Of course, now I know, this is a terrible idea. To cut a long story short, I salvaged most of the wire, and just finished rewinding the bridge pickup by hand. Yes, it took a long time...

I have an on-on-on DPDT switch with 3 positions. I used to use it to have hum-split-parallel. My guitar is a HSH Westone Dynasty, there's a push pull to activate the middle pickup. Now, what I want to do with the 2 humbuckers is Position 1 - humbucker (neck) humbucker (bridge) Position 2 -...

I'm pretty sure I can't do this, but just to double check... If I take the red and white wires from two different pickups (4 wire humbuckers, SD wiring colours), can I run them both to the exact same switch terminal to switch them to ground to coil split them? I'm pretty sure I can't because it...

Hi there. I'm working on another project and I've read here that 50k is a good value of pot for spin-a-split, but does anyone know which taper I should go for? A, B, or A wired-backwards? Also, for this guitar, I'm still contemplating pickup choices. It's a H-S-H Westone Dynasty from the 80's...

I've got a handful of pickups here and a swimming pool routed partscaster. Any recommendations for best positions for each of the following pickups? I like Steely Dan, Jeff Beck, Van Halen too lol. I mostly finger pick and want maximum dynamic range and range of EQ. Alnico 2 trembucker, 8.2K...