Dual 59 customs questions, screws inwards

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Hey i'm building a guitar with tb-16 and sh-16 (in the neck) pickups and i am pondering on which way round to wire them

Note that 1: my wiring scheme incorparates inner and outer coils tones, and sort of needs the slugs to be either close or far apart

2: i'm using a 24 3/4" conversion scale warmoth neck which physically moves the pu's to the neck slightly

Q1
How does the 59 custom sound rotated 180 degrees: custom coil to the bridge? Has anyone got expierience with it this way?

Q2
If i go slugs inwards do you think the custom neck coil will sound nice PROVIDED the scale length EFFECTIVELY moves the pickups 1 top fret forward?

I have seen someone cut the 24th fret off a 25.5" scale neck and mount it with no real uglies: http://i66.tinypic.com/2gww09x.jpg

Thanks for your help heaps, the struggle is real
 
Re: Dual 59 customs questions, screws inwards

Scale length has nothing to do with pickup positions. Closer to the neck is fuller sounding. Closer to the bridge is brighter. You can put the pickups anywhere.

Putting pickups on harmonic nodes doesn’t matter since the node moves when you fret a note.

The idea with inside or outside coils is more about the spacing of the coils from each other. Keep in mind you need a north and south coil to hum cancel.


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Re: Dual 59 customs questions, screws inwards

Your question is basically about orientation of the slugs vs poles and I'm just going to suggest you try it one way (start with the "normal" orientation OR flip a coin if you can't decide) and, if you aren't completely happy with the results, simply unscrew the pickups and turn them around.

Your wiring scheme will be cool and versatile, but you may be overthinking the rest of it!
 
Re: Dual 59 customs questions, screws inwards

DavidRavenMoon said:
Scale length has nothing to do with pickup positions. Closer to the neck is fuller sounding. Closer to the bridge is brighter. You can put the pickups anywhere.

Putting pickups on harmonic nodes doesn’t matter since the node moves when you fret a note.

The idea with inside or outside coils is more about the spacing of the coils from each other. Keep in mind you need a north and south coil to hum cancel.


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The warmoth conversion neck places the nut and frets closer to the bridge meaning the pickups are closer to the 12th fret.
 
Re: Dual 59 customs questions, screws inwards

I can answer one of your questions definitively. In my 59/Custom hybrid- I was getting to much low end in my bridge p'up.
So I noticed/read that the slug side was the one with most of the wind. So I 180'd it so the slug side was closest to the bridge, and it was much brighter to my ears than the slug side closest to the neck. As I use heavy strings on the low A and E for quicker trem response I lowered the screws so the low strings would be even brighter. It worked. This is a true story, it worked for me. As far as coil tap, the slug is pretty hot but not as "sparkly" as a true single coil, obviously, so I believe it would serve well turned toward the bridge also.
Steve Buffington
 
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