Recent content by kiwijohn

I just brought a secondhand Fender FV3 Electric Violin and the pickup is very low gain. I want to replace it. Does anyone have experience doing this or opinions on what I should consider? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, i have three lil59's on my strat. works fine. love it. had it like that for around 10years. have standard strat switch (5way). Someone told me you can rewire them so you only use one coil of the lil59 - enabling another range of sounds - ie switch in humbucker or switch out. has...

I'm about to invest in (I mean blow some of my hard earned cash on) a wireless system to hook my guitar up to my amp. Just started looking at choices on the market and talking to mates. Has anyone got any experience in these systems they would be happy to share. I'm just as interested in what...

Hope one of you guys out there can help me. I have a Dobro (about 45 years old) someone has put a Fishman Passive Resophhonic Guitar Pickup under the biscuit and wired it ll up (Fishman make these thinigs for Dobro style guitars). Its all done professionally but it sounds more like one of George...

I've just got hold of a 1956 Maton 45A Premier (its an accoustic jazz f holed axe from maton in australia http://www.maton.com.au/mainpage.asp?modelcode=45A%20(59)). There was a rather cheap and antiquated pickup system on it hat someone had added sometime in the past. It was dead on arrival...

Is there a SD option to replace pickups on Rickys? I have a hum I can not get rid of with the standard pickups and am looking at options. I replaced my Strat pickups with SD Lil'59ers' and got a really good result. Looking for something similar on the Ricky??