If there is one humbucker set I'd have to use for the rest of my life if I had to choose at gun point it'd be the PATB3/Demon set. It's the perfect combination of beefiness, power, clarity, harmonics, tightness, purity, organic feelz, sparkle, chime, honkyness, howling madness and everything in the middle, making this pickup set perfect for a really allround setup. Are there pickups better suited for a specific task? For sure. But the fact remains, these pickups aren't nearly as often used as they should. Perhaps thats because it's still odd to use the Demon in the neck (perhaps the guitars I build are so clear already, this pickups simply 'works' in my guitars, compared to others?). Perhaps the PATB3 is just still too ugly. I'm not sure. But I do know, this set? rocks.
This is the guitar I have it in right now.
This guitar wasn't really supposed to be, at all. After I routed the body I discovered a huge worm hole in the side. it wasn't visible on the outside before I set the bandsaw in the body blank, at all! The neck had a similar issue. But when the guitar was routed, I simply wanted to toss the parts out and start over, but I figured that it would be a good practice piece for carving the top, neck, heel, sanding the hell out of this guitar, finishing, setup, etc etc. LIke a cheap way to practice without really hurting or damaging a 'good' piece. So I started working and voila, this is the result. The top turned out decent, but the tone. Man, the tone. This guitar howls, sustains for days AND is surprisingly stable tuning wise! I didn't use carbon fiber stiffening rods in my necks back then, so a year down the line, the neck still didn't need adjustment, despite having lived through a rough summer and crazy winter.
This sucker is what I call a slimline: thinner than a regular LP with a super-deep cutout for extreme upper fret access. A stripped down guitar like this needs a super simpel wiring: 1 volume, 1 tone, 1 pickup selector and done. Maybe I'll add a coil split later on cause these pickups split so epically.
The finish is handrubbed french polished shellac on a 2 piece bookmatched maple top, 1 piece limba back, rosewood neck and a 22 fret, 24.75'' compound radius ebony fretboard. She barely hits the 8lbs mark.
This is the guitar I have it in right now.
This guitar wasn't really supposed to be, at all. After I routed the body I discovered a huge worm hole in the side. it wasn't visible on the outside before I set the bandsaw in the body blank, at all! The neck had a similar issue. But when the guitar was routed, I simply wanted to toss the parts out and start over, but I figured that it would be a good practice piece for carving the top, neck, heel, sanding the hell out of this guitar, finishing, setup, etc etc. LIke a cheap way to practice without really hurting or damaging a 'good' piece. So I started working and voila, this is the result. The top turned out decent, but the tone. Man, the tone. This guitar howls, sustains for days AND is surprisingly stable tuning wise! I didn't use carbon fiber stiffening rods in my necks back then, so a year down the line, the neck still didn't need adjustment, despite having lived through a rough summer and crazy winter.
This sucker is what I call a slimline: thinner than a regular LP with a super-deep cutout for extreme upper fret access. A stripped down guitar like this needs a super simpel wiring: 1 volume, 1 tone, 1 pickup selector and done. Maybe I'll add a coil split later on cause these pickups split so epically.
The finish is handrubbed french polished shellac on a 2 piece bookmatched maple top, 1 piece limba back, rosewood neck and a 22 fret, 24.75'' compound radius ebony fretboard. She barely hits the 8lbs mark.
but the PATB3 isn't a hot pickup per se. but she's got attitude \m/
