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I have a CoolRails in the neck and Vintage Rails in the mid position of a Steinberger style guitar. My problem is both E strings are softer than the rest. This is especially annoying when using a Maestro Fuzz-Tone (gate effect). The curvature of the pickup rail polepieces has a smaller radius...

I have an Epiphone ET-270 (early Nirvana) and the plastic of the original pickups perished away over the years. I recut a new scratchplate with Strat pup sized holes. But: I have now tried the lil 59, duckbucker, vintage rails and coolrails, and none get anywhere near the strings, even with the...

I am trying to achieve the open, clear sound of the neck and middle Strat pickup setup, but without the problems of hum or buzz. So far I have purchased the following single-coil sized humbuckers: Vintage Rails, Cool Rails, Duckbucker, Lil 59, SH-4 using one coil only with screws set to Strat...

My Hohner Steinberger copy has the wiper of the volume pot on the pickup side. To my surprise, I notice all schematics here seem to have the wiper on the socket/amp side! Why the difference? What design decision influences the wiper side configuration? I DO understand that, with the wiper on...

I plan to buy a CoolRails set for my Steinberger style Hohner. Because I had fitting problems with a Lil59, I decided to test fit a used HotRails before laying out the money. To my dismay, I discovered it had no mounting threads, just two holes! I tried rigging up something with bolts, but the...

I recently got a Lil 59 for my Hohner Steinberger G3T style guitar. When I fitted it, I found it's too wide for the string spacing! What is especially problematic is the low and high E strings when I switch the pickup out-of-phase with the bridge pickup. I have tried setting the screw heights...

I have just installed a lil 59/duckbucker/jb (altho' that's not relevant.) I have wired each pup exactly as in the supplied leaflet, I chose series/off/parallel (on-off-on, 2-pole toggles). All three then go to a 250k pot, then out. The weird thing is, when all three are off, I still hear...

I have a Hohner Steinberger copy as a travel guitar. It's a H-S-S configuration, fitted with EMS select pickups. Each pickup has its own on-off mini toggle, except the bridge humbucker, which has an off-tapsplit-on(pre-wired series) Trouble is, the tapped position is highly susceptible to...