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Something Cool
OK, tirekicking time.
Before I go off with my inane ideas, let me say this: no weird mounts, OK? No pickups requiring extra routings, new pickupguard or special humbucker rings. That limits the audience too much, or worse leads to bad experiences as people open their lovely custom shop package today and toss it in the drawer til the end of time tomorrow.
Now, my idea is what I consider a "proper" big magnet Stratocaster pickup and a split pickup.
#1:
Big Magnet stratocaster pickup, Blackmore style.
The Quarter Pounder doesn't count since it is way too hot. Blackmore used the Schecter F-500s that have the big magnets but they are vintage class wind, not hot winds. They have awg42 or 42.5. I haven't been able to get my claws on one of those suckers, but Rio Grande makes a similar design and I have one of those and AHHHHHH yes that is where the Blackmore hides. I also kinda hired Zhang to rewind some of my SD QPs that way, just held up by my backlog of getting things out of old guitars (sorry, Zhang, will follow through eventually).
Anyway, I think this would be a good design. I think that some prototypes should be made with awg42 and awg42.5, because the thick wire might not fit and/or the in-between wire might be better. I also would very much like to try at least two magnet lengths. I think that compensating for the larger diameter by making it a bit shorter, so that overall magnetic power stays in normal bounds, might come out very well.
#2:
This is a much more untested idea, but I would really like to see a split style guitar pickup like a Precision bass pickup. In a humbucker casing. G&L puts that design into the commanche and some Tele clone but those are not interchangeable with normal pickups.
I think that this could be an excellent approach toward a neck pickup for a Les Paul that is not boomy, has the single pickup point thing with less cancellations but still has a lot more meat than putting a Stratocaster pickup into a humbucker casing. Not to mention it cancels hum.
Before I go off with my inane ideas, let me say this: no weird mounts, OK? No pickups requiring extra routings, new pickupguard or special humbucker rings. That limits the audience too much, or worse leads to bad experiences as people open their lovely custom shop package today and toss it in the drawer til the end of time tomorrow.
Now, my idea is what I consider a "proper" big magnet Stratocaster pickup and a split pickup.
#1:
Big Magnet stratocaster pickup, Blackmore style.
The Quarter Pounder doesn't count since it is way too hot. Blackmore used the Schecter F-500s that have the big magnets but they are vintage class wind, not hot winds. They have awg42 or 42.5. I haven't been able to get my claws on one of those suckers, but Rio Grande makes a similar design and I have one of those and AHHHHHH yes that is where the Blackmore hides. I also kinda hired Zhang to rewind some of my SD QPs that way, just held up by my backlog of getting things out of old guitars (sorry, Zhang, will follow through eventually).
Anyway, I think this would be a good design. I think that some prototypes should be made with awg42 and awg42.5, because the thick wire might not fit and/or the in-between wire might be better. I also would very much like to try at least two magnet lengths. I think that compensating for the larger diameter by making it a bit shorter, so that overall magnetic power stays in normal bounds, might come out very well.
#2:
This is a much more untested idea, but I would really like to see a split style guitar pickup like a Precision bass pickup. In a humbucker casing. G&L puts that design into the commanche and some Tele clone but those are not interchangeable with normal pickups.
I think that this could be an excellent approach toward a neck pickup for a Les Paul that is not boomy, has the single pickup point thing with less cancellations but still has a lot more meat than putting a Stratocaster pickup into a humbucker casing. Not to mention it cancels hum.
