I can haz sex with my JBJ?

[Clint 55]

Sounds friggin good! It's one of the best pickups I've played. It's clearer, without that upper mid spike, and somehow rustic at the same time. I had to change the baseplate, lead, and add a double thick A2. The guitar has a 300k volume pot that meters 274k.

[Demanic]

Re: I can haz sex with my JBJ?

You really like your pickup close to the strings. Obviously, it must work for you.

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[Chistopher]

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I couldn't play with the pickup that high just on account of hitting the low strings into it. Look at those saddles, the strings in general look pretty high. Do you have the neck angled at all?

[Clint 55]

Re: I can haz sex with my JBJ?

I like a full tone. Why wouldn't it work? I don't get too much strat-itis.

Stuff like hitting the pickups has never bothered me. The neck is bolted down as much as I can get it. The strings are kind of high at around 0.11". There's some neck bow. I've been thinking about shimming my bridges.

[JB6464]

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I bet that quarter pounder rocks that middle position .

[Clint 55]

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Yas it does!

[eclecticsynergy]

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I love a QP in middle position; had one there for thirty years in one of my Floydcasters.
Finally changed it to a PA/STK when I went Parallel Axis bridge & neck.
The stack is less rockin' but more Stratlike.

Double thick A2 sounds like a great mod for a JB.

[Masta' C]

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A double-thick A2 with a 274K pot? Sheesh.

Maybe you should have started with a Custom Custom

[Clint 55]

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^ I was actually thinking the exact same thing. 500k volume sounded good with the single coils but was a tad edgy. And I'm goin back to being myself with fat vintage hot tones anyways. I have 1 'rawk ax' with a 1 meg volume that I don't play. So I thought eff it I'll try a 250k volume basically. I don't use tones. I had a A2 JB before and it was kind of sloppy. But to my amazement after trying out the JBJ with a double thick A2 and 250k pot... Totally clean and detailed bot to top! I was like wtf! It's an epic wind. It's got dat vintage clarity.

[zizyphus]

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Clint, where are you getting the double thick A2s from?

I've only ever found double thick A5, A8, and ceramic.

[Clint 55]

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https://www.cermagmagnets.co.uk/alnico-bars-for-hb-double-width---62mm-x-65mm-x-125mm-39-p.asp

They can also do other alnico grades that aren't on the drop down menu if you email them. I've gotten double thick A6 from them before and I bet they would also do UOA5. They said they don't have A9. Cool that 2,3, and 4 are now a continuous double thick magnet and not bonded.

[larryguitar]

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https://www.cermagmagnets.co.uk/alni...125mm-39-p.asp

They can also do other alnico grades that aren't on the drop down menu if you email them. I've gotten double thick A6 from them before and I bet they would also do UOA5. They said they don't have A9. Cool that 2,3, and 4 are now a continuous double thick magnet and not bonded.

Clint, what do you use for spacers for the double-thick magnets? And are you using longer polepieces, or just leaving the coils stock?

Larry

[zizyphus]

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Clint, what do you use for spacers for the double-thick magnets? And are you using longer polepieces, or just leaving the coils stock?

Larry

You can buy spacers from AxesRUs

I've also found that strat pick guards can be cut to the right size fairly easily. This is useful not only for making a spacer, but also for filling a gap when you replace an oversized ceramic magnet (as many ceramics are oversized) with a standard sized Alnico magnet.

[ItsaBass]

Re: I can haz sex with my JBJ?

I don't think you can call it "sex," but I'm sure you can figure out a way to get off on it.

[Clint 55]

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Clint, what do you use for spacers for the double-thick magnets? And are you using longer polepieces, or just leaving the coils stock?

Larry

I leave the coils stock. Then I get the lead the hell out of the way and use 2 spacers on each side and wrap masking tape around 1 of the spacers on each side to get the coils to sit exactly flush. This one took 3 layers of masking tape.