Recent content by hamerfan

Yes that's true. It's a nice and raunchy bridge pickup, that's how I use it in a Les Paul. Seymour invented it first as a bridge pickup and called Seymourizer II. Years later he needed a neck for the new Distortion and renamed it SH-6N.

The Air Norton was not planned as neck pup, but at one point DMZ used is as ‘a radically neat neck pickup’ whatever that means. IMO only very few bridge pickups work as neck (Sometimes it works with 24fret guitars or maple strats.) Sell it (or try it as bridge pickup) and get a PAF Joe for an...

It uses single coil pickups instead of humbuckers just to reduce unnecessary weight, I guess.

There is no need to push all pole pieces in with vintage curved fretboard. This causes the d and a string to get drowned in the mix and get an uneven response. In most cases its enough to play with a lower height on the g string.

Its normal, since the vintage style pickups of Duncan don‘t have the print. Exception are the OEM‘s

Yes, I can leave the poly on the fret board. For the back I worked with rattle can nitro, truoil and even shellac. Shellac gives the woodiest feeling, just a bit smoothed out with 0000 steel wool and shined with some with some denim rags.

Yes that definitely possible. I did it several times. Do some measurement of you fave necks and compare them with the IYV. In my case it's not so much the thickness but the shoulders, which has to be shaven. I like C or soft V necks best. Also the taper has to be considered: my necks are only .1...

I did maybe 50 swaps in the last 20 years. I also have a stash of 20 additional magnets. Yes, a also did swap the A2 in a 490r for a A5. Improved it really, but still a bit congested, not as open as a Jazz. The UOA5 are still my fave magnet for a stronger PAFs like an Ant Bridge. But my fave...

Humbucker rings come in 2 length. One is PAF like, but modern ones could have enough length. You need more than 2.7 inch. Just check the dimensions on the parts suppliers. Be aware that cream comes not in a single hue, so you also can have a colour mismatch with our pickup.

A good pic from back and front of those humbuckers would tell us more.

Any digital effects in the line? Some of them can't deal with hot active pups.

Full Marshall stack and volume on 11

The 35th Anni JB is a great pickup and reminds me of my MJ made JB. Just for shit and giggles I put an unoriented A5 into a modern JB and I was almost there. The Antiquity JB I heard in the vids sounded a bit duller (less bass, less highs).

I really liked the 35th Anni set, but the price even used is still steep.

Take the SH-2 and swap in a A2 magnet.