DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Forever the tinkerer (the Mad Scientist name and all), I'm considering building a Frankenstein (or Newcenstein, as it were, not the EVH pickup...unless...).
The donors I have to choose from are:
-2 Duncan Designed SC-101 singles (both same wind/polarity, apparently) (Alnico poles) 7.01K
-1 import Rail-type single-spaced humbucker (not sure who made it, but the USA counterpart to the guitar it came out of had Armstrong Rails, which had the same wire color scheme but the import models use what appears to be a metallic/candy green wire) (unknown magnet - looks like a bar across the bottom, possibly Alnico? - looks like steel) 14.76K full / 7.39K split
-What appears to be a Jackson J-150 single with a ceramic bar on the bottom (bluish/grey mottled color). I appear to have killed this one. I get no reading across the solder points.
-A JB that appears to have some sort of unspecified internal issue (sold it on Ebay a while back, but had to refund when the buyer said it was behaving oddly - it worked fine when I took it out, but then I never liked the JB to begin with so it coulda been defective/damaged and I didn't know it) 16.71K full
-A pair of Jackson J200 stacked humbuckers (conveniently encased in epoxy which will require major surgery - yum) 11.5K
-Various import humbuckers, including an "MMK 45"-stamped jobby (these can be hit or miss in my experience) (magnets unknown as of yet). The MMK 45 is 11.68K (2 conductor, allens on both coils) and the unmarked import is 8.9K 2-conductor (under the chrome cover there's white bobbins wrapped in red and yellow tape, with a bar mag of some type between the plates they're on, and the slugs are really loose - the bar mag is dark grey and smooth - Alnico? Ceramic?)
-An EMG Select H-S-S set that I robbed of the mounting tabs some time ago - readings unknown as of yet
-An EMG HZ (H3, I think, maybe a 2, hafta look again)
-a 59N (would rather not, but if I can get something sweet...)
-A Hot Rails I appear to have killed (no reading on the wires or bottom plate solder points)
-A Sustainiac single-coil driver (hmmmm)
-A dead Duncan single with a 1BX sticker (SSL-1? Black enamel coil wire?)
First off, I've never done pickup mods, so I have no idea what will "work" and what will be a lot of work only to end up with the same thing I started off with (i.e. swap one coil of the JB for the SC101 coil and end up with a JB).
Second, is there any way to even vaguely predict any such results, even if one must assume a given magnet is of a given type (i.e. assume the SC101 uses A2 poles + the Rail assumed to be using an A2, mounted on a humbucker baseplate and the coils wired together in Series (or Parallel?) = ?-type of tone)
Or am I jumping into the way-too-deep end of the pool here?
The donors I have to choose from are:
-2 Duncan Designed SC-101 singles (both same wind/polarity, apparently) (Alnico poles) 7.01K
-1 import Rail-type single-spaced humbucker (not sure who made it, but the USA counterpart to the guitar it came out of had Armstrong Rails, which had the same wire color scheme but the import models use what appears to be a metallic/candy green wire) (unknown magnet - looks like a bar across the bottom, possibly Alnico? - looks like steel) 14.76K full / 7.39K split
-What appears to be a Jackson J-150 single with a ceramic bar on the bottom (bluish/grey mottled color). I appear to have killed this one. I get no reading across the solder points.
-A JB that appears to have some sort of unspecified internal issue (sold it on Ebay a while back, but had to refund when the buyer said it was behaving oddly - it worked fine when I took it out, but then I never liked the JB to begin with so it coulda been defective/damaged and I didn't know it) 16.71K full
-A pair of Jackson J200 stacked humbuckers (conveniently encased in epoxy which will require major surgery - yum) 11.5K
-Various import humbuckers, including an "MMK 45"-stamped jobby (these can be hit or miss in my experience) (magnets unknown as of yet). The MMK 45 is 11.68K (2 conductor, allens on both coils) and the unmarked import is 8.9K 2-conductor (under the chrome cover there's white bobbins wrapped in red and yellow tape, with a bar mag of some type between the plates they're on, and the slugs are really loose - the bar mag is dark grey and smooth - Alnico? Ceramic?)
-An EMG Select H-S-S set that I robbed of the mounting tabs some time ago - readings unknown as of yet
-An EMG HZ (H3, I think, maybe a 2, hafta look again)
-a 59N (would rather not, but if I can get something sweet...)
-A Hot Rails I appear to have killed (no reading on the wires or bottom plate solder points)
-A Sustainiac single-coil driver (hmmmm)
-A dead Duncan single with a 1BX sticker (SSL-1? Black enamel coil wire?)
First off, I've never done pickup mods, so I have no idea what will "work" and what will be a lot of work only to end up with the same thing I started off with (i.e. swap one coil of the JB for the SC101 coil and end up with a JB).
Second, is there any way to even vaguely predict any such results, even if one must assume a given magnet is of a given type (i.e. assume the SC101 uses A2 poles + the Rail assumed to be using an A2, mounted on a humbucker baseplate and the coils wired together in Series (or Parallel?) = ?-type of tone)
Or am I jumping into the way-too-deep end of the pool here?
