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Would a '59 bridge sound good in the neck?

Hi, I have mostly been using SD's in the past, but I wanted to have something different for this Ibanez RG721, basswood body + maple neck. Stock pups were okay, but the neck was too boomy so I got a DiMarzio Paf-Pro for it. Sounds great. I want to find a compagnion for it in the bridge. There...

Hi folks! Having a bit of a HB dilemma here. I have a guitar here with decent stock pickups. I love the way they're voiced, but they're not perfect, highs are a bit sharp, not overly fizzy, but that harsh brightness run-of-the-mill pups have when distorted. As much as I love Duncans, I don't...

Does it work? I'm looking for new tones, currently using '59 and Custom Customs, Custom 5's...

Okay so here's the question. The guitar has 2 humbuckers with coil split function. I changed the wiring so that the coil split has the screw coil active in the neck HB, with the bridge pup unchanged (slug coil active with coil split). There are two ways of doing this: swap the green and black...

Hi. I got me a nice used Japanese bass, it sounds fantastic, passive pickups are great. This is however my first bass with a blend knob - but there's something unusual about it. When in the middle position (it has a stop there) I hear both pups but the volume is less. Turn it either way and the...

Bought me an official SD hombucker cover, but it seems I can't get the bobbins fully into the cover. All the screw coild remain sunken, which means there's still some space between the surface of the bobbins and the inside of the cover. No matter how hard I push, it doesn't seem to fit. Afraid...

Bought this used with EMG's installed but I want to put the Lace divinators back (2 HB with split coil, one volume; one tone knob; 3 way switch) Anyone have a diagram? Normally the HB's hot goes to the 3-way switch, but what i'd like to know is, since the Lace HB's don't have shielded wiring...

Anyone familiar with these? Can't find any demos online, nor does Lace itself have any soundclips on offer. Lame. I guess I'll stick to SD if no one can tell me about them (or hook me up with a sound clip).

I saw a '59 online up for grabs and the label at the back said: I1CGQ 20160220 SH1N NECK. It seems it has a maple spacer, only the wire side is taped off. Probably a fake?

Call me what you will but I bought one of those Harley Benton SC Custom II Vintage guitars. I'll probably keep it since the neck fits my hand like a dream. Stunner looker (nothwithstanding the really sloppy finish), all mahogany, very midrange sounding axe, decent sustain, put a Custom 5 in the...

The Duncan website has been listing the Parallel Axis humbuckers as "currently unavailable" for along time now (they still have the neck humbuckers, but no bridges). Anyone here know when they'll be available again or what the reason is for the dry spell? Thx

The guitar: LP style, acoustically it has a pronounced low-low-mid (upper bass) bump and a very "present" upper mid spike in the same frequency range of the upper mid "bite" of the PG. So the bitey character of the PG is more like nails on a chalkboard here. I took out the A2 and it's better...

Hi, I want to put two spacer magnets in a humbucker like so. Are they oriented so they attract each other? Thanks

I have a guitar here with one fret sticking out. My plan is to heat the fret to soften the glue (if there is glue), then tap the fret down nicely with a hammer. Will the glue continue to stick after it's cooled down or is the glue useless? (I don't have a fret hammer but I'll put a bit of sheet...