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So this is probably one of the most-asked questions on the internet when it comes to guitars, along with "Which Sounds Better, Sonic Blue or Seafoam Green?", and "Will I Get More Sustain If I Eat 50 Cheeseburgers A Day For A Month?". More often than not, the answers will be along the lines of...

Slash AIIp VS AIIP neck? Pretty sure you could get the nickel cover with no trouble. I got one with yellow bobbins, short mounting legs and 4-conductor wiring.

I have an Epiphone LP Standard whose pickups I'm about to switch. It's currently wired with coil splits on both pickups, and when they're both split and you choose the middle position, it seems to be hum-cancelling. It also seems that both pickups split to the slug coil. I want to keep the...

http://soundcloud.com/richard-irons/comfy-numb-black-strat Recorded this with the STK-S6. After the version of the solo from the album it goes off into noodling. Don't be shy about switching it off at that point, there's all kinds of fluffs and stuff as it goes on!

http://soundcloud.com/richard-irons/time-solo Played on a 94 Fender Am Std Strat, which has an STK-S6 (noiseless equivalent of the SSL-5) in the bridge. Into a Boss eBand JS10, Fender Twin model using Big Muff and Delay modelled effects plus a bit of compression. Fluffed a note right at the...

I'm thinking of buying an ES-339 from a friend. It's stock at the moment so it has the 57 Classics in it. I've got those in an LP at the moment and they're OK (soon to be changed for the Slash set), but I've played the ES-339 and they're a little uninspiring. Unplugged the guitar is loud and...

I've been playing for over 20 years, but I think I was only improving for about the first 5 of those. I just never seemed to put myself through the work. How silly. I've been off work for a few months and I decided to try and see if I could get somewhere. Slash is a childhood hero of mine, and...

I'm going to build a guitar around a couple of P-Rails. The standard wiring diagrams using a mini toggle switch (as seen here) use an on/off/on switch and have the following layout: UP: Rail (single coil) MIDDLE: Humbucker DOWN: P90 Thing is, I'm going to be using HB and P90 modes way more...

I'm looking at putting the two Vintage Stack for Tele pickups into a tele and I'd like to give myself a "series" option. My questions are, Can I just run straight through them both in series? - if so, do I need to make a separate bridge ground? (I guess yes) Or do I need to use just the top...

So we all know how to develop speed right? Play exercises with a metronome and when you can play at a certain speed reliably, accurately and without mistakes, bump the speed up a bit. Or similar method. I see a lot of people saying they hit a wall at XXXbpm. I also see lots of people on youtube...

I'm about to fit a strat with two SSL-2s and an SSL-6. Or at least I thought I was, and then I started thinking about the Stack Plus range. It appears to me that the equivalent noiseless Duncans would be two Classic and one Custom. So I have two questions. 1. Is the tone close enough? The main...

OK, having spent an hour on this I'm opening it up to you guys. Can this be done using a super switch? Two humbuckers and a 5-way switch. It'll just be master volume and tone controls so ignore those. Whenever the coils are split and combined they need to be hum-cancelling. Configuration as...

The reason I ask is: I want to split a bridge JB on a Strat to just the adjustable coil, and then combine it with a split Vintage Hot Stack Plus in the middle for an approximation of a quack tone. It seems that most wiring diagrams assume you're going to split humbuckers to the slug coil. I...

...for my blog. There's no ads, it's not to make money, it's just that writing a blog is a bit more fun if you know there are people reading it. I'm blogging the build of a Warmoth superstrat and geeking out a bit with the electronics, which every single person who reads it takes me to task...

I was thinking of using a JB for this but I thought I might as well ask you guys for advice as there's so much knowledge floating around! The guitar I'm building, I'm aiming for an 80s feel to it. So think Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, or Van Halen's poppier stuff, or clean stuff like Don...