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I am doing some work on a friend's Tele. It has a bucker in the neck and a standard tele bridge. He has asked me for the following: Position 1 - Neck Parallel Position 2 - The neck pickup which is parallel still, but the whole thing wired series and out of phase with the bridge Position 3 -...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cduarIbcrsE I realize what I am asking for. The grail of tone, without the rest of the guitar, so I won't get ahead of myself. That being said, I am looking for any pups that do this sound, and maybe what to look for in this sound. Formvar? Output? I have heard...

Mid control instead of a treble rolloff?

I converted my SG neck pickup to 4 conductor, and wired it paralell and seires with a push pull pot. I also flipped the magnet to get out of phase with the bridge bucker, when in the middle position. The push pull pot is the neck volume pot. When the neck pot is pulled out to get paralell and I...

I have 2 APS-1s for sale. Lots of lead left. I want to get $40US each for them, plus the actual cost of shipping. I live in Canada, and will ship to the US, I just don't want to quote a price with shipping included, because it changes all the time. So $40 plus shipping.

I am think of trying one of these in the bridge of my SG. I know on paper I should go with the 57+, due to the inherent thin SG bridge, but I don't want to sacrifice high end. I actually like a brighter top in this particular guitar. I have done some searching, and heard that the 57+ remains...

I just got a hold of a bunch of untouched vintage Sprague Bumble Bee caps. The colours on them are brown, green, red, black, space, blue. My best guess is that these are .0015. Is that the same as the common .015? I am not an expert on reading these things. I'd appreciate the help. I already...

I think that's what I want to do with my SG bridge. I want to use the tone pot from my neck pickup as a master tone, and then use my tone pot from the bridge as a spin between the two bridge coils. Anyone have a diagram on how all of this would look? I found the spin a split posts by Artie...

So I have finally decided to make a run at wiring a neck pickup in my SG parallel with a push pull volume pot. Currently the guitar is wired normal, with the bridge mag flipped to get out of phase in the middle. I have been able to find some crazy diagrams out there for all kinds of split/...

So I finally picked up an APH for the bridge of my SG. Man that took a while to find! Sounds great. But I kind of knew that it would. Going to try the usual mag swaps, but even straight up stock, sounds great. I guess I am biased, because I think that the APS and APH are SDs best production...

So I know that the long edge of the magnets need to repel one another, toward the pole pieces. But does it matter in terms of which flat side is up? Is there a secondary orientation that needs to be considered, that may possibly impact phase with the other pickup? I am going back to an A2/A4 in...

Is it on the flat side, the thin side, or the end? Are they different? Does it impact how the pickup works?

As I understand it, these are unoriented mags, and were used in the early PAFs. I also hear that they are available for purchase. But what I don't hear, is where to find them. Can anyone point me to a seller?

Stumbled across this on Youtube. This guy does a pretty good A/B of the two. Something about the BK reminds me of an APH. Check it out http://www.youtube.com/user/skaboosh

I have a chrome Phat Cat bridge pickup for sale. Lots of lead. I really don't want to do this, but I need to fund a purchase of an APH. Anyway, you can have it stock with the 2 A2 mags in it, or you can choose one of the following combos. A2/A5 A4/A5 (personal favorite!) A2/A4 A5/A5 I also...