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Recently did some rewiring on a Strat. This guitar had a set of Dimarzio Area Pickups and a Mojotone Blender wiring, for those who are familiar with it. It was working alright, but I had a Bridge Seymour Pearly Gates on another guitar and wanted to try it on the strat. I'm no pro, but have done...

Hello! I have a Bridge Pearly Gates WITHOUT a cover (zebra cream and black). I'm sure you know the kind....... plastic on top and nothing covers the sides with the coils except some kind of black fabric tape. I'd like to try it on the bridge of a strat. Can it be installed like that on the...

Currently have a Hotrails on my Strat bridge. Full HB is ok, but coil tapped kinda weak. I have a bridge Phat Cat that I'n not using. Has anyone tried a Phat cat on a strat bridge? My other two pups are Dimarzio Area 58 & 67 on neck and mid.

Currently have installed a Hotrails with a tap coil push-pull pot option on my Strat bridge. No complaints as full humbucker but when coil tapped sounds weak compared to the other two single coils on mid and neck. I'd like to have a better "strat" SC sound out of it. My Q is: I have a Pearly...

I'm about to rewire my strat using a push pull pot to split coil my bridge Hotrails. Not sure what the difference in sound is between split coil and parrallel wiring. Neck and Mid are hum cancelling SC's. Standard 5 way switch. What in your opinion is the best sound option Hotrails; split or...

My MIM strat currently has a SSH setup with a HOTRAIL @ bridge. When I use the middle & bridge together on position 2, I get the FULL humbucker and the middle SC and a tone drop. I'm considering using a super switch to split coil the hotrail when I use bridge/mid and hopefully get a more strat...

I have a mex strat with dm single coils on neck and middle (area 58 and Area 67) and a Seymour Hotrail HB @ bridge. Currently with the 5 way way switch on position 2, I get the FULL Hotrail HB and middle SC. Was looking at a 5 way switch by Oak Grigsby "super switch" that will coil split the...

Replacing the bridge phat cat on one of my guitars and thinking what to do with it besides putting it on ebay. Has anyone Idea of what will happen if I use the bridge phat cat for the neck in another project? I imagine it will be too dark or dull. Has someone done this? I love how the neck PC...

Need some help here Just ordered a PG pup for the bridge on my Epi dot and will also replace one of the pots from 500k to 250k. Thought replacing the vol pot (is easier) would reduce my brightness and do the trick, but was reading some threads that say changing the vol pot will not change the...

While back I upgraded my Epi dot with one of Mojotone's 335 prewired assemblys. Both vol pots are CTS 500k short shaft. Also replaced pups for SD Phat Cats. When I get the volume to 8 or 9 there is a bit of scratch and then the volume jumps up. Is this normal? Maybe I damaged the pots while...

What will give my epi dot a fatter / better tone on the bridge PG or '59?

Swapped pups on my epi dot to phat cats. Also swapped magnets to improve tone. The neck pup can't get any better, but not happy with the bridge phat cat. Too thin and "nasal". I use it on the neck pup for leads and on both pups for rythm. Hardly ever bridge alone. Thinking on getting a humbucker...

Sometime ago I replaced the stock pickups on my epi dot ("57 classic") for Duncan Phat Cats. These are of course epi's version very different from Gib 57 classics. Just out of curiosity: Is it worth messing up with these pups to make em sound any better..............swap mags?

I've done a couple magnet swaps on my Phat Cats without any problem until now. Had 2 A8's on bridge, but these were unpolished. Just received some very rough cast A4's and did the swap. When I tested, both pups sounded ok individually but with the switch in the middle for both I would get a weak...

Is there something like rough cast A8's. All I have been able to get are unpolished A8's. Wonder what very rough cast A8's would sound. Sent dennis @ addiction fx a line to see what he thinks.:scratchch