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    very low drop tuning questions

    well after a little fooling around a couple of days ago i made a startling discovery. for some reason i'm liking a tuning that could best be described as drop G D standerd, or D standerd with the bass-D string dropped to G. since i only have one guitar its probably going to be tuned back up to...
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    can you literally split a humbucker into two single coils...

    to use in an SSS strat. for instance can you break apart a duncan custom into two single coils and put them in the middle and bridge position. has anyone done this? and if so how i guess you would have to put in single coil sized magnets but
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    okay my tremolo bar just broke

    on my strat knockoff (w/ vintage tremolo) i accidentally broke the tremolo bar. Problem is, it broke right before the part that screws in so there is no way i can think of to screw it out nor enough room to screw a new one in. You guys hae any suggestions as to how to get that piece out?
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    wait if you could turn a jb into a distortion bridge...

    then can you turn a distortion neck into a neck jb by swapping the magnet for an A5? how would this sound?
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    make pole-pieces "gold"-colored?

    hey i was wondering if there is any practical and preferably cheap way to use some product on "normal" colored pole-pieces to make them "Gold"- colored without screwing up the tone. I am planing out a kind of gold and black colored strat guitar and it would be awesome if i could get the...
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    Is there a Quick-connect system for passives

    I know that EMG has a quick connect system for active pickups to allow in ease of switching out pickups and was wondering: -is there a similar system for passive pickups (for any brand not just EMG) -what modifications if any would you need to do to the guitar and pickups to impliment such a...
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    question about necks

    i keep hearing about how necks are v-shaped or c-shaped or D-shaped etc. how many neck shapes are there and what affect on playing do they provide?
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    would this pickup combo be possible?

    H/minihum/minihum : how would this sound like tone wise if i used: 2 duncan custom minihums and a custom custom in an alder strat
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    how do youmake a hybrid pickup

    do you have to custom order it or can you do it yourself. if you can do it yourslf how do you and what equipment/skills do you need to do it
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    Time Capsule 2005

    Okay fellow forumites, the time capsule thread is official.(thanks admins) Just list the following info and prepare to laugh in the years to come 1. what music style do you play 2. what guitar(s)/equipment(rig) do you currently use (or use most often)? 3. what instruments/equipment are you...
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    good humbucker for bridge in a strat

    i was wondering if you could recomend me a good bridge humbucker for my strat copy (peavey raptor) I play metal and would like something with good treble and mids and some okay bass. I would also like it to be versitile and sound good without the amp cranked up thanks
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    EMG 707's

    how do they sound compared to other pickups?
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    tilted pickups

    one aspect of the guitar that still elludes me is tilted pickups such as the bridge p'up on a S/S/S strat. I heard that the tilt does something to the treble tone. first question: What exactly does this do? i have also noticed some guitars with p'ups tilted thje opposite direction second...
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    questions about neck length/number of frets

    -First is it possible/practical to put a 25.5 scale 24 fret fretboard on a Fender stratocaster designed for a 22 fret fretboard(i want swimming pool routing so i dont think i can get a showmaster) -Second i heard that the neck scale/number of frets can make a diffrence. Is this true? If so...
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    ground wire question

    okay #1 can you use a speaker cable as a guitar cable second i think i have a ground wire problem w/ the neck pickup. some wire came lose a long time ago and i resoldered it. problems: immediately the neck pickup became muted and would have to crank the tone knob to about 6 to match the...
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