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This one was the result of desperation. I managed to get my hands on a very abused mid-70's univox Strat clone. The body was solid mahogany that was slightly thinner than stock. It had a schechter setup that included a metal pickguard, toggle switches and two of three single-coils that worked. I...

Someone had given me a much abused generic Strat. It had a drop-in Schecter pickup assembly with its metallic pickguard and toggle switches. With one bad pickup, it was time to do some shopping. I bought a single-colil staggered white single-coil from Seymour Duncan. It had the magnet below...

You can conceptualize the extremes as being either that of definition that makes your fingers bleed, or extreme sustain that won't let you fingerpick chords because the blending sounds like mush. Most guitarists will find their ideal guitar somewhere between the two extremes. If you were to...

Your second option is to use static blades or pole pieces that cover your 1st-2d, 5th-6th, including threaded pole pieces in the 3d and 4th position. Otherwise tha design is stock.

Making use of two L-shaped offset plastic platforms, you can slant each blade to adjust string balance three at a time. The coil and retainer have to be attached to the top of the pickup cover to make it work.

Easily made from plastic, a sleeve reaches downward 5mm to keep it from shifting. An oversized wedge that follows the recommended sttings keeps it from falling into the trem well. This lets you loosen the trem and keep it from moving backward.

A 2mm baseplate can be fitted to the four studs common to tune-o-matic type configurations A second trem plate is pinion mounted forward, springs are attached forward and below, reaching rearward to a spring bracket suspended by two screws attached to the rear of the floating trem plate. The...

Is there something to be gained by trying this?