LtKojak
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Hi fellow SDUGF forumites:
in the illustrated series I made about modding the Epi Alnico Classic Probuckers (I call it a "Boutique Conversion™" to be precise, where I take all the cheap parts and components and replace'em with the same parts and components most "Boutique" winders use in their products) that came with my ES-339, I've published this picture:
This is how the polepieces look when they're tweaked for even volume between strings IN THE NECK p'up. I used the bridge p'up to do it because it was easier for me to take the picture.
Today as I was watching this excellent video showing Larry Carlton gear which I heartly reccomend to all gear buffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfZwva-v64
At about 1:20 this picture of Larry's #2 came up and I took a screen shot,
'cause something caught my eye, and there it was: the polepiece radius in the neck p'up was almost like a carbon copy of mine! And as I also then said that this polepiece radiusing in the bridge p'up is not as important, you can also see that the radiusing in bridge p'up in the same guitar looks almost flat.
Of course it helps that Larry and I use similar string gauges. He uses D'Addarios XL 10-52 and I use D'Addarios XL 11-52s, BTW.
Another thing to notice is the p'up height: it's a LOT lower and slanted in the lows on his #2, compared with the setup of his #1.
Taking count that his # 1 it was bought new, off-the-shelf in a music store in 1969, one can take an educated guess and think that those are most probably T-Tops with short, full-charged A2s, judging by the somewhat "darkish" tone and extremely dynamic range shown through that Bludotone of his.
It's not because I want to toot my own horn, mind you; it's that I just wanted to share with you people the nice feeling I got, by seeing my biggest guitar hero of all time how took a cherry-picked original PAF set and adjusted the same way I always do, meaning that maybe I'm not as brain-dead and/or tone-deaf as some would like to make it appear.
So guys: if you've ever had doubts about doing this, I think it's time to try it and hear by yourselves what good it may bring to your beloved instrument. It might turn something that already is very good to something flat-out great. You'll never know until you try it, right?
Yours very truly,
in the illustrated series I made about modding the Epi Alnico Classic Probuckers (I call it a "Boutique Conversion™" to be precise, where I take all the cheap parts and components and replace'em with the same parts and components most "Boutique" winders use in their products) that came with my ES-339, I've published this picture:
This is how the polepieces look when they're tweaked for even volume between strings IN THE NECK p'up. I used the bridge p'up to do it because it was easier for me to take the picture.
Today as I was watching this excellent video showing Larry Carlton gear which I heartly reccomend to all gear buffs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfZwva-v64
At about 1:20 this picture of Larry's #2 came up and I took a screen shot,
'cause something caught my eye, and there it was: the polepiece radius in the neck p'up was almost like a carbon copy of mine! And as I also then said that this polepiece radiusing in the bridge p'up is not as important, you can also see that the radiusing in bridge p'up in the same guitar looks almost flat.
Of course it helps that Larry and I use similar string gauges. He uses D'Addarios XL 10-52 and I use D'Addarios XL 11-52s, BTW.
Another thing to notice is the p'up height: it's a LOT lower and slanted in the lows on his #2, compared with the setup of his #1.
Taking count that his # 1 it was bought new, off-the-shelf in a music store in 1969, one can take an educated guess and think that those are most probably T-Tops with short, full-charged A2s, judging by the somewhat "darkish" tone and extremely dynamic range shown through that Bludotone of his.
It's not because I want to toot my own horn, mind you; it's that I just wanted to share with you people the nice feeling I got, by seeing my biggest guitar hero of all time how took a cherry-picked original PAF set and adjusted the same way I always do, meaning that maybe I'm not as brain-dead and/or tone-deaf as some would like to make it appear.
So guys: if you've ever had doubts about doing this, I think it's time to try it and hear by yourselves what good it may bring to your beloved instrument. It might turn something that already is very good to something flat-out great. You'll never know until you try it, right?
Yours very truly,
