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  • #31
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    Pawn shop mustang set

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    • #32
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      That's a good way to angle the neck pickup.
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      • #33
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        • #34
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          Got the double thick A6 swapped in and the wiring finished.

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            • #36
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              Unhappy with the pickups. The neck sounds kind of mustangy but the bridge just sounds like an overwound custom 5. They don't have any ant character at all. Gonna just do the Kurt Cobain mustang thing and put a ant mustang set in series in the neck and a JB in the bridge. I also got the bridge in the right spot and the thing intonated. The ax itself plays well. No issues at all with bullet cheapness or compatibility or anything. The bridge pickup ended up about 2 inches away from the saddles and is perfect. The series sound still sounds crunchy but a bit warmer. But a funny thing happens when I roll off the spin a split, it sounds like position 2 on a strat! Pretty cool.
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              • #37
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                you asked for unrealistic things when you ordered them and they kinda told ya it wasnt gonna work the way you wanted. a firebird pup cant sound like a single coil and neither can the fullsized bucker. then you swap in a double thick a6 which is pretty far away from a mustang pup... im sure they are cool pups and i like the backwards angled neck pup. im sure you can get it sorted the way you want eventually

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                • #38
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                  Why is it possible to wind a humbucker with the tone color of a strat - Pearly Gates - but not a Jaguar? That makes no sense and I don't think it's true.
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                  • #39
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                    what bucker sounds like a strat? none that ive heard

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                    • #40
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                      That's a straw man. I never said I wanted hums to sound identical to a single coil despite the changes that the constructions causes. Go back and read my posts if you're actually concerned about understanding my point of view instead of trying to establish that I was the ignorant one.
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                      • #41
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                        If you are going to make a new custom pickguard, I would also look at doing a bit of routing on the body to get the bridge humbucker closer to the position that it would be on a Strat style guitar. Possibly use a HSS strat pickguard as a reference if you have one spare.

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                        • #42
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                          I'm actually happy with the bridge hum location. It's about 2" away from the saddles and still gives a crunchy tone in series then sounds skanky with the spin a split rolled back. I'm gonna leave the bass side of the neck hum in the same spot then crank the treble side towards the bridge. Gonna draw a new pickguard for them to make and fill in the space between the bridge.
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                          • #43
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                            Scored the JB and myth set. Woohoo!
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                            • #44
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                              Happy bday Cobain.
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                              • #45
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                                One time when researching things that people liked about pawn shop-style guitars, I came across someone that built something with 3 arcade-type switches. One was a kill switch, one added a loud ground hum, like if the cable suddenly was unplugged, and the other one activated a microphone in the control cavity that somehow looped back on itself sending screaming non-tonal microphonic feedback into the amp. I always thought it would be cool to have that crappy pawn shop experience on the guitar in a controlled way.
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